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talks with

Sadat, Begin

Discords persist
cut Sinai summit

i , WASWfNGTON, June 4 (Agencies) —
P resident Ronald Reagan has invited
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to visit
Washington Aug. S and 6, and the Prime
Minister of Israel to meet with him Sept. 9
and 10, the White House announced Thurs-
day.

Deputy White House press secretary Larry
Speakes said the Israeli invitation will be
extended to Men ahem Begin or whoever
wins the Israeli elections June 30. The presi-
dent has also invited King Hussein of Jordan
Nov. 2 and 3, the White House announced.

” We would like very much to build on the
Camp David peace process," said deputy
White House press secretary Larry Speakes.
An administration source, who did not wish
to be identified, said both major parties in the
Israeli election had been consulted and the
administration was informed that “whoever
is elected the invitation would be accepted.”
Speaks said he presumed the meetings
would be held in Washington, although the
president is scheduled to spend part of
August at his Santa Barbara, California,
Ranch.

At his meeting with Begin at Sharm-el-
Sheikh, Sinai, Thursday, Sadat urged Israel
to allow more time for a peaceful settlement
of the Syrian missile crisis and Begin said he
agreed.

This emerged at a press conference given
by the two leaders after their one-and-a-half
hour meeting. Sdat told reporters he had also
asked Begin to halt Israeli nids on Palesti-
nian positions in Lebanon but Begin appar-
ently declined.

He claimed at the press conference: “ What
we do against die Palestinians is an act of
legitimate self-defense." Sadat described the
Lebanese confiiet.as a tragedy for which he
blamed Syria, and reiterated his view that it
was time for Syrian peacekeeping forces to be
pulled out of Lebanon.

“The president of Lebanon should this one
ume tell the whole world if he needs this
so-called Syrian deterrent force," Sadat said.

The Egyptian leader also said “I asked
Begin to give the Americans ample time to
find a peaceful settlement .’’

Begin added "I agree to give Habib (Spe-
cial L'.S. ensoy Philip Habib) rime to find a
solution by peaceful means."

He declined to go into derails about Thurs-
day's talks, but he said "we had important
agreements and reached serious solu-
tions.” The two leaders spelled out sharply
conflicting positions on the status of
Jerusalem Sadat called for the liberation of
Arab East Jerusalem, while Begin reiterated
that Israel considered Jerusalem one city and
would never tolerate divisions of any kind.

Asked about the stalled Egyptian-
braeli-L’.S. negotiations on Palestinian aut-
lonomy , Begin said the issue was not raised at
’Ae meeting. He noted that Sadat did not
want to talk about autonomy until after the
June 30 general elections in Israel.

But he added "I believe whoever wins the
elections will reach agreement for autonomy
with Egypt in accordance with the Camp
David accord.** Sadat voiced optimism about
autonomy, saying “I am hopeful that before
the end of the year, we will reach an agree-
ment on full autonomy 3nd give a much grea-
ter push to the peace process."

The rwo leaden met in a hastily- converted
discotheque on Na’ama Bay at this sothem-
most tip of the occupied Sinai peninsula.

A\ they met, a group of Israeli settlers in
SHlai chided tight security measures ro
emerge on the beach m swimsuits and
demonstrated against their evacuation when
Israel completes its withdrawal from the
desert next April.

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ROYAL VISIT : King Khaled wffl pay a three-day state visit to Britain June 9 at the invitation of Queen Elizabeth EL Saudi Arabian
and British flags seen above fluttering fat the street in front of Buckingham Palace Wednesday, four days before the King’s arrival.

Baghdad conference

Ministers establish
long-term strategy

JamesEarlRaystabbed, Nuclear war

now in stable condition e< ^8 es closer,

SIPRI says

PETROS, June 4 (AP) — James Bari Ray,
who pleaded guilty to lolling civil rights
leader Martin Luther King was stabbed sev-
eral times in die chest, arm and neck early
Thursday m the Law Library at Brushy
Mountain Peni ten tiaxy officials said.

Ray, S3, serving 99 years for King’s mur-
der in 1968 in Memphis, was taken to Oak
Ridge Hospital under heavy guard and was
undergoing surgery, according to Debby Pat-
terson, deputy press secretary to Gov. Lamar
Alexander. He was in stable condition, and
die operation was expected to last 1 %-hours,
she said.

Four inmates, three black and one white,
were held after the stabbing at 8:58 a.m., she
said. Their names were not released. Guards
also confiscated a weapon fashioned from a
12- inch metal brace taken from a window
frame. The maximum-security prison was

locked down after die stabbing, but there
were no disturbances, said warden Herman
Davis.

“These suspects will be held for investiga-
tion," he said. “I have in turn notified the
Morgan County sheriff and we have sealed
off the Law Library.”. Davis said it would be
up to the sheriff and district attorney general
to pursue charges.

No motive was known, according to
Ronald Bishop , director of institutional prog-
rams for the correction department. “Ray
was in the general prison population and had
no known problems with the suspects," he
said.

Barbwra Washburn, a hospital spokeswo-
man, said Ray came into the emergency
department, “was evaluated as having multi-
ple stab wounds which he received at the
prison" and sentinto surgery.

Masonic lodge scandal

Italy’s largest daily on strike

MILAN, Italy, June 4 ( AP) — The editor-
ial staff of Coniere Della Sens, Italy's largest
and influential daily newspaper, went on
strike Wednesday and Thursday to protest
the alleged involvement of its publisher and
editor in a Masonic lodge scandal.

The newspaper did not publish Thursday
and was not expected to publish Friday. Emp-
loyees are demanding a voice in the appoint-
ment of a new editor to replace Franco di
Bella, who went on indefinite leave this week
for "reasons of health."

The discovery of the P-2 Masonic lodge
caused the coDapse of Italy's 40th post-war

government last week. State prosecutors sus-
pect tile lodge took pan in far reaching tax
evasion schemes and planned an
authoritarian takeover of the state.

A list of more than 900 alleged members of
tiie lodge includes the newspaper's publisher,
Angelo Rizzoli, Amidi Bella, as well as key
politicians and businessmen.

Employees are also protesting the
takeover of a 40 percent stake in Coniere
DeBa Sera by a holding company headed by
financier Roberto Calvi, another alleged
member of the P-2 Lodge, in jail on charges
of illegal transfer of funds abroad.

Japanese claim schizophrenia drug

TOKYO, June 4 ( R) — Two Japanese sci-
entists said Thursday that a drug, normally
used for testing the functions of digestive
organs, had produced highly promising
results in treating schizophrenia. The finding
came after three years of animal and clinical
tests by Dr. Shinji Itoh, aphysiologist and
Professor Emeritus of the University of Hok-
kaido. and Dr. Takashi Moroji, a researcher
at the Psychiatric Research Institute of
Tokyo.

Dr. Moroji said the drug was believed to
have worked to “calm down patients’ feel-
ings, make them feel relieved clear their
heads and reduce or eliminate hallucina-
tions."

The drug might help to unravel the still
unknwon causes of schizophrenia, an illness
suffered by about one in every hundred of the

workf s population. Dr. Itoh said. According
to the Japanese doctor, the drunenip
wanalogue of choletystoJdnin (CCK), is a
hormone existing in the duodenum. He said
the drug had been, used in tests in Japan under
a license from the health and welfare ministry
and in other countries as well.

Dr. Moroji said the drug was administered
to 20 chronic in-patients suffering from
schizophrenia. In all but three cases favorable
effects were dearly observed within an hour.
“The patients’ emotions improved, their
expressions and behavior softened and their
hall urinations were diminished or elimi-
nated,” he said. “The improved conditions
continued for up to a month. In one dramatic
case a patient who had been suffering from
auditory hallucinations for 10 years was
d eared of his illness for several days."

STOCKHOLM, June 4 (R) — The world is
edging doser to nudear war, the independent
Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute (SIPRI) said in a report Thursday.

Greater arms spending and advancing
military technology coupled with deadlock -
over achieving East- West detente posed a
major threat to global security, the institute's
1981 yearbook concluded.

It reported an almost four-fold increase in
world military spending between 1949 and
1980 with arms expenditures of over $550
billion last year.

A disturbing trend was the “ qualitative "
develqpment of U.S. and Soviet strategic and
tactical nuclear weapons, it said. The
enhanced accuracy and power of- modem
nudear weapons made them “ mpre likely to
be seen as suitable for fighting than deterring
war," the report saud.

The militarization of outer space also con-
tinued last year with the launching of 103
military satellites — 14 by the United States
and 89 by the Soviet Union.

But the most marked trend of the past
decade was the growth of military spending
by Third World countries which in 1980
accounted for 16 percent of the -world total
compared with nine percent in 1971.

The Soviet Union and U.S. supplied 75
percent of all major weapons to the Third
World in the 1 970s although otherindustrial-
ized countries, notably France, increased
their share.

Third World nations mainly re-exported
arms from industrialized countries to each
other. Israel, Brazil, South Africa, India and
Argentina developed as weapons producers.

Six of the eight largest Third World arms
importers in the 1970s were -in the Middle
East, the report said.

Institute Director Frank Barnaby said he
regarded the growth of the Third World mar-
ket as particularly serious, since a world war
was more likely to develop from a regional
conflict than start with direct superpower
confrontation.

The report also noted a stalemate in inter-
national arms control negotiations and said
the greatest disappointment in 1980 was the
U.S. failure to ratify the SALT II treaty with
the Soviet Union on curbing strategic nudear
weapons.

If the U.S. planned to increase military
spending by 40 percent in real terms over the
next five years and it was believed the Soviet
Union would match this, the report said.

NATO plans to station Cruise and Persh-
ing missiles in Western European as the
Soviet Union is steadily increasing its stock of
SS20s, trained on the continent.

BAGHDAD*June4 (Agencies) — Islamic
states have led the basis at their current fore-
ign ministers conference here fora long-term
strategy for economic development, Iraqi
foreign minister and conference chairman
Saadoun Hammadi said Thursday.

Hammadi, quoted by the Iraqi news
agency, said the conference, which opened
last Monday, had also derided to step up
diplomatic pressure within international
organizations on behalf of the Palestinian
people. It had reviewed the implementation
of past resolutions concerning support for the
Palestinians, he added, and the situation in
Lebanon with a view to finding ways for solv-
ing that country's crisis.

Hammadi, who spoke at a press confer-
ence, said of the ten-month-old Gulf conflict
with Iran that Iraq wished to resolve differ-
ences between the two countries peacefully,
but on the basis of guarantees for its
“sovereignty over its territory and water-
ways." About the Gulf, he favored preserv-
ing the region from “all foreign interventions
and international rivalries."

The conference ’ 5 political committee
meanwhile called for effortsat“freezing out”
all Israeli participation in United Nations
activities. It also wanted the appointment of
an Islamic ministerial task force grouping
Pakistan, Senegal, Malaysia and Guinea, as.
well as OIC Secretary General Habib Chatti,
to seek a new U.N. resolution dearly
safeguarding the rights of Palestinians to
self-determination and a state of their own.

He said Iraq would help Syria if it were
attacked by Israel. But this pledge did not
mean it wanted to restore relations with
Damascus, broken last year.

According to the 1NA, the ministers mil
consider at a final plenary session recom-
mendations that they denounce what was cal-
led Israeli and American terrorism and
repeat a call for a Jihad (holy struggle)
against Israel. The recommendations,
drafted by the confer ei ce’s political orrnmit-
tee, also called for the r&urn oi jretu&dJem to

Arab and Islamic sovereignty as capital of a
Palestinian state and for a total ceasefire "m
Lebanon. The current fighting there was
blamed on “escalating Zionist attacks and
constant American instigations, all of which
may lead to total war in the region."

The political committee condemned
“organized terrorism exercised by the Zionist
enemy through recurrent brutal raids and the
declaration of a war of extermination on
Palestinian refugees." The committee reaf-
firmed full support for Lebanon's indepen-
dence and territorial integrity and Arab
efforts to help achieve national reconcilia-
tion. It stressed the need for a total and
immediate ceasefire.

It also affirmed that “the city of Jerusalem
is Arab and it should return under Arab and
Islamic sovereignty to serve as capital for the
Palestinians within the framework of an
independent Palestinian state headed by the
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)7 *

Habib returns
to M.E. today

WASHINGTON, June 4 (AP)— Special
U.S. envoy Philip Habib was due to leave
Friday for Europe en route to the Middle
East where he will resume his efforts to
defuse the Lebanese crisis next week, the
State Department said Thursday.

Department spokesman David Passage
said Habib has been in contact with tne
parties to the conflict since his return to
Washintgon a week ago and has received
assurances that all will be ready to receive
him when he goes back to the area. '

Passage did not say what Habib’s first
stop will be. During his earlier mission, he
visited Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Saudi
Arabia attempting to head off the out-
break of war between Syria and Israel
over Syria’s deployment of anti-aircraft
missiles in Lebanon.

East Germany attacks Begin

EAST BERLIN, June 4 (R) — East Ger-
many angrily retorted Thursday to Israeli
Prime Minister Men ahem Begin following his
attacks on the German nation and accused
him of pursuing Hitlerite policies.

“The government in Tel Aviv does not
have the least right to use the Jewish victims
of German Fascism as an excuse for its
policies" East Berlin's chief political com-
mentator, Karl- Eduard Von Schnitzler,
wrote in the foreign policy weekly Horizon.

He said all Israeli governments had pur-
sued occupation policies based on the same
"fascist lies" used by Hitler.

“They have earned out an extermination
policy against the Palestinians internally and
a campaign of annihilation beyond their bor-
ders," Von Schnitzler wrote.

Although he did not refer directly to
Begin’ s a trades on West German Chancellor
Helmut Schmidt and foe German nation, the
East German commentator alluded to them
several times and made dear the article was
meant as a rebuff.

Begin has repeatedly accused Chancellor
Schmidt of forgetting foe Nazi murder of
Jews. He renewed his attacks Thursday, cal-
ling the chancellor a “Nazi officer."

Begin has not mentioned East Germany in
his statements but Thursday’s artidc indi-
cated that the Communist state also felt
offended. Moreover it appeared to be the-
first time foe official East German media
have come to the defense of a West German
chancellor.

Thousands protest Midway’s visit

YOKOSUKA. Japan, June 4 (R) —
Thousands of demonstrators shouting
anti-American slogans and waving peace
signs marched past a heavily-guarded U.S.
navy base Thursday to protest against the
expected arrival of foe American aircraft
carrier Midway.

More than 3,000 riot police, aimed with
shields and fighting staves and backed by
armored buses and water cannon, guarded
the base along with U.S. Marines.

The Midway is due to dock Friday at 9
a.m. and more demonstrations are expected
then. Police reported no serious incidents
during Thursday’s march in which they said
over 7,000 persons participated.

As the anti-Midway rally went on, local
officials continued last-minute efforts to
have the 64,000-ton warship, returning
from patrol in the Indian Ocean, switch to a

destination other than Yokosuka, located
on Tokyo Bay.

The carrier has been based at Yokosuka
for the past eight years but is now suspected
by many Japanese to cany nuclear weapons
in violation of Japan' s stand against harbor-
ing such arms.

The suspicions arose after former U.S.
government officials said American war-
ships had been carrying nudear weapons to
Japanese ports for the past 21 years'. The
Midway carries three types of planes cap-
able of dropping nuclear bombs.

Kazuji Nagasu, governor of the
Yokosuka area, has sent telegrams to foe
Japanese and U.S. governments asking for
the Midway to go elsewhere.

The governor told reporters he wa£,seri-
ously concerned about foe arrival of the
Midway because local feelings were high.

By Susan Gray
Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, June 4 — There will be
: no qui« beginning for Robert Neumann to
(earn hi* new assignment as America's
? ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Rather,
; - ' 1 America's new top envoy in Jeddah will be
immediately swept up in the brewing and
threatening tide of Middle East politics.

Neumann will serve as a go-between on
the American initiative to dissolve the war
clouds hovering over Lebanon and die focal
pomt of negotiations on the proposed
AW ACS sale. Then, there are the broader
question* of the festering Palestinian prob-
^ lets, a listing Arab-Israeli peace and meet-
A) ini possible Soviet expansionism in foe
Tj Middle East.

ww The situation, as Neumann described it
^ * recently, ts that any diplomatic understat-
ing in foe Middle East is tike " walking in a
mute field/’ In the center of this act of
balancing diplomacy comes Neumann’s
primary goal of enhancing what he calls the
- dd and tested " relations between foe
United Sates and Saudi Arabia.

In the areas of political and economic
jCooaura to both countries, Neumann wants
United States and Saudi Arabia to
operate as much as possible as a single
s, M he told the Arab Seat in an inter-

New U.S. ambassador will have hectic be ginning

view just before he left Washington to take
up his new post m Jeddah.

The Kingdom's role m defusing the crisis
between Israel and Syria over the Syrian
missiles in Lebanon is one foe U.S. sup-
ports, Neumann said. “ It is in the best
interests of foe U.S. for foe Kingdom's
efforts to continue. "

The broader and long-term matter of
American-Saudi Arabian relations is of top
importance for foe Reagan administration,
acknowledged Neumann, foe educator-
diplomat who served both as a senior cam-
paign official for the president and his top
transition team foreign policy chief.

In an administration which has reaped
criticism for its slowness in making diploma-
tic appointments, Neumann is only the third
ambassador to be confirmed by Congress.
The diplomatic team that Neumann wants
to cement between American and Saudi
Arabia has “ obvious strains " created by
his country'’ s commitment to Israel.
Neumann’s goal, simply put, will be build-
ing a parallel and expanding relationship
with Saudi Arabia which in no way
diminishes support of Israel.

The new ambassador, who came to the
U S. as an immigrant from Austria, has

advocated aUJ. dialogue with the Pales-
tine Liberation Organization (PLO) since
1978 and often speaks of the “ centrality of
the Palestinian problem ” and how it hand-
icaps American relations with Arab states.
These “ strains " between the U.S. and foe
Arab states over the Palestinians are now
creeping into foe Reagan administration’s
plans to bind the Gulf Arab states together
with the U. S. against Soviet expansionism.

While stating that Saudi Arabia and other
Gulf Arab states share foe blossomed U.S.
emphasis on what Secretary of State Alex-
ander Haig calls a “ strategic consensus, ’’
in foe region against foe Soviet Union, foe
new ambassador candidly concedes that the
U.S. has to make progress on the Palesti-
nian issue to gain credibility on other policy
fronts.

The new American envoy — no new*
comer to foe arena of Middle East politics
since he has served as ambassador to both
Morocco and Afghanistan and has traveled
extensively is foe region — calls foe Camp
David accords a “credible beginning "
toward forging a comprehensive Middle
East peace. But foe new ambassador
recommends “flexibility" in diplomatic
initiative. “ Use the best means available

and do not be tied to any particular pro-
cess, " Neumann advises.

When asked about what specific steps he-
would advocate, Neumann would not
elaborate. But foe former political science
professor at the university of California said
he does not see any new positions emerging
on resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict and
foe question of Palestinian national rights.
Rather the diplomatic ground-breaking will
come, Neuman projected, in new ideas
about bow to bring about a wider peace
process.

During his Senate confirmation hearing
last month, Neumann personally advocated
that foe final disposition of the Israeii-
occupied Arab territories be settled first
and then interim stages of transition could
be discussed. Neumann's personal position
— if adopted asU.S. policy — would essen-
tially reverse the Camp David process
which defers foe decision on (he final ter-
atonal arrangement for the West Bank and
Gaza Strip until after a five-year transi-
tional period.

In the interview with Arab Sews
Neumann said he does not favor a world
conference on the Middle E£st as proposed
by the Soviet Union. Sudi a conference is

more suitable when there has already been
progress, he said.

Whatever form the new diplomacy takes
which leads to a wider Arab-Israeli peace,
Neumann sees Saudi Arabia as a focal point
“The Saudi Arabians have a growing strong
and important role," Neumann said, not only
in resolving the current flashpoint of
threatened Syrian- Israeli confrontation in
Lebanon, but in all aspects of Middle East
diplomacy.

Talking specifically about achieving a solu-
tion to the Palestinian problem, the new
ambassador continued by saying: “If there is
to be a full peace in foe Middle East, Saudi
Arabia has to play a role." But the former
head of Georgetown University's Foreign
Policy Research Center emphasized that it
must be the Kingdom's decision whether
their role will be “direct or more discreet"
Turning to a discussion of foe Whire House’s
decision to sell Saudi Arabia five sophisti-
cated Radar planes known as A WAGS,
Neumann said the proposal “thoroughly and
completely’’ points up the shared concern by
foe Americans and foe Saudi Arabians over
foe Soviet threat to the oil fields.

Neumann, who has been one of the staun-
chest promoters of foe military aircraft sales

package, denied that there is any private
tradeoff agreement linking the AWACS sales
and U.S. access rights to Kingdom’s military
facilities. In accessing the chances of foe arms
■lies package — which promises to be foe
finest foreign policy issue this year — of
Tap ing a congressional veto, Neumann
would only point out that it is “hard to say"
what the vote will be.

The final package is now being put
together by the administration, and the
ambassador expects the informal negotia-
tions between the White House and Congress
to be completed in foe next few weeks.

The new ambassador’s biography reads
like the classic American immigrant success
story. After spending a year as a political
prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp,
Neumann immigrated to the U.S. in 1939.

He earned advanced degrees at major
American universities,

Neumann had been at Georgetown since
1976 and served as coordinator of foe
Center’s Middle East program since 1979.

Neumann will be accompanied on his new
assignment by his wife, Marian, who foe
ambassador said, has an avid interest in foe
role of Muslim women.

Neumann succeeds Ambassador John
West, a close political confidant of former
President Carter, as America’s new emissary
in foe Kingdom.

PAGE 2

FRIDAY, JUNE 5, lSgj

Gulf postal experts
review cooperation

ABH A, June 4 (SPA) — The fi rst working
session of the Gulf Postal Authority’s extra-
ordinary conference was held at the Buhairah
Hotel here Thursday. Samir Haraed Banaja,
posts director general, chaired the opening
session of die conference that will discuss
improving postal services in the region and
unifying tarriffc among Gulf states.

The conference was opened by Prince
Khaled A) Faisal governor of Ash', Wednes-
day. He said the cooperation among Gulf
states is a model for other Arab and Islamic
organizations. The conference was opened at
the Abha Education College.

Minister of Posts, Telegraph, and Tele-
phone Dr. Alawi Darwish KayyaL addressing

King sends cable

RIYADH, June 4 (SPA) — King
Khaled sent a cable of congratulations to
Sultan Ahmed Shah of Malaysia on the
lattei’s birthday celebrations Thursday.
King Khaled expressed his best wishes for
Sultan Ahmed and successes and prosper-
ity to the Malaysian people.

Qatari official departs

DHAHRAN, June 4 (SPA) — Deputy
Commander of Qatari Armed Forces Col.
Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani left here
Wednesday after holding talks with the Saudi
Arabian officials on reinforcing military
cooperation between the two countries.

The Qatari official inspected some of the
Kingdom’s military installations and organ-
ization during his few day’s visit. He arrived
here Saturday.

tixe conference, reveale d tha t the Kingdom’s
government has donated a land plot at the
new Diplomatic Enclave in Riyadh for the
authority’s permanent headquarters. King
Khaled and Crown Prince Fahd bad issued
instructions to provide all possible facilities to
enable the Gulf postal authority carry out its
mission, he said.

Before the opening of the conference, the
delegates of the Kingdom. Bahrain, Kuwait,
Iraq, Qatar, Oman and the UA£ held a pre-
paratory session at the Educational College
Wednesday. The conference also is attended
by a representative of the World Postal
Authority and the Arab Postal Onion.

Samir Banaja, head of the Kingdom's
delegation, was elected as president of the
conference and UAE Assistant Deputy
Minister for Posts as the vice-president.
Later, Prince Khaled Al Faisal gave a dinner
party in honor of the delegations taking part
in the conference. .

in a separate development, a contract has
been awarded for building a ball for post
boxes at a land plot owned by the Posts Direc-
torate General in Ulaya, Riyadh. The build-
ing will comprise 20,000 boxes. Awarding of
a similar project with 20,000 post boxes to be
located in the eastern part of Riyadh is also
being considered, according to director gen-
eral Samir Banaja.

The project is part of a scheme to improve
the postal services in the Kingdom. Banaja
said that the two buildings will be finished
within 15 months bringing some 40,000 post
boxes to public service.in the capital.

A similar project, accommodating 20,000
boxes, will be built in Jeddah.

Fahd invited
to development
conference

JEDDAH, June 4 (SPA) — Deputy
Foreign Minister for Political Affairs
Abdul Rahman Mansouri met with the
Mexican and Austrian charge d’affaires
here Wednesday. The two diplomats deli-
vered a joint message daring the meeting,
to Mansouri for Crown Prince Fahd ibn
Abdul Aziz from President Portilo of
Mexico and Austrian Chancellor Bruno
Kreisky . The message dealt with an invita-
tion to Prince Fahd to participate in the
forthcoming International Development
and Cooperation Conference due to be
held in Mexico in October,

Prince Naif continues tour

Arabs urge joint security procedures

CASABLANCA, June 4 (Agencies)
Interior Minister Prince Naif arrived here
dining his present tom of Morocco as guest of
Interior . Minister Idris Al Basil' for talks
about matters of mutual interest. The’ talks
also covered cooperation in security.

During his tour Prince Naif visited in ternal
security institutions and met with leading
officials. He briefed them about the
development programs in the Kingdom and
praised the policies of King Hassan of
Morocco.

MeaxiffhDe^epresentatives of die Arab
interior ministers have recommended that
some suitable organizations should work oat
a training program for carrying out die first

Unique gas pumps due here

By Cynthia Stanley

Houston Bureau

HOUSTON, June 4 — In a little over a
month a ship is due to arrive in Saudi Arabia
to deliver three unique Byron Jackson pump
packages to be installed at the eastern endof
Aramco’s Shedgum-Yanbu natural gas
liquids (NGL) pipeline.

The pumps, which were loaded and ship-
ped from Houston, Texas, are capable of
pumping natural gas liquids the entire 726
mile distance of the Shedgum-Yanbu
pipeline. The pipeline is one of the longest
and most advanced computer-controlled
lines for transporting gas liquids. It is also the
longest to have only one single pumping sta-
tion.

The three pump packages, manufactured
by Byron Jackson at their headquarters in Lds
Angeles, are composed of a double-cased

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Arab security plan. At their final meeting
here Wednesday night they decided to dis-
cuss the plan at the forthcoming meeting here
in December.

Meanwhile, they recommended a unified
c riminal code to be applied throughout the
Arab world. They called for the formation of
Tsiamif. consultative councils consisting of
experts in Islamic legal, social and judicial
sciences- They also called for setting up an
Arab authority to evaluate information and
cultural programs and plans, and a joint fund
to finance the security plan. The threr>-day
meetings were organized by the Arab Organ-
ization for Social Security.

The last meeting of the ministers was held
in Baghdad last year. It recommended the
establishment of an Arab Institute far Police
Studies at a cost of SR400 million to be based
in Riyadh. They also decided to merge it with
tile Arab Studies Center and asked Interior
Monster Prince Naif to be chairman of the
board.

The institute forms part of a wide-ranging
security plan discussed at the third interior
ministers conference held in Taif last August.
The conference then set up a permanent
council of interior ministers to strengthen the
security system and to assist common security
institutions. It also approved the setting up of
a center for social defense studies and train,
ing. Hie ministers later agreed on a $30 mil-
lion master security plan aimed at reducing
crime, improving inter-Arab law enforce-
ment, and organizing the penal codes into a
common system based cm the Islamic Sharia.
The plan, which runs between 1981 and
1983, will be financed by a joint fund.

The cost will be borne by the member
states and through voluntary donations from
Arab countries. It envisages the purchase of
improved communications and laboratory
f dirties. It will also devise a system whereby
die stales should be informed of the evil
effects of certain types of entertainment and
tourist and cultural programs.

Prayer Times

Filipino community organizes fiesta

Friday

Makkah

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Riyadh

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Tabok

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4.07

3.38

3.21

3.46

4.11

Dbuhr (Noon)

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12.20

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3.41

3.13

3.05

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On tile same day. Ambassador Romualdez
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Imam training begins

JAKARTA, June 4 (SPA) — A training
program for 1 ,000 Islamic imams (educators)
in Indonesia organized by the Muslim World
League in Makkah opened its first session
here Wednesday. Secretary General of die
Muslim World League Sheikh Muhammad
Al-Harkan has said professors from King
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Islamic institutes would take part in the
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Filipino artists from Manila and Jeddah
will perform during the nightly program.
Filipino efishes and delicacies will be saved.
The new chancery in Al Hamra, near the Al
Mokhtar department store, is expected to be
opened during the week.

The Embassy’s Commercial Department
has prepared a pictorial exhibit and Ph2q>-
pine products display at the ambassador’s
guest house and, in cooperation with the
Sheraton Hotel will hold a Hfipino Food
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The readence of die Ambassador is near
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*vSE tRUr ' ?*?* ? (Agandei) — Heavy
sa gging overnight claimed an undetermined
®iBiber of lives both near Beirut i commer-
In fee Lebanese dty of Zahle.
Tne artillery fire skekaned at dawn Thuriday
“ dries, according to reports.

la Zih^i4en>Oirlfliaa ouSfiuia have
beat far the past two months by

ttc Syrian Arab Deterrent Force, shelling
foUcmcd heavy sdpper activity, news oorres-
■ pondents reported from thedty. Theihetiing
was concentrated os the industrial and
Maa&atMfow of Zahle, and left fires nmng

KVt t ^ fl ^igfaborhoodi. The in te n si ty of
toe shooting made it impossible to determine
■f . a “ saalties, correspondents

UU. Artillery exchanges Wednesday left

• three penons dead and 30 wounded, accord-
;^ 10 tocai press reports.

• fa Beirut, shelling along the commercial
. yyt nr and near the southeastern suburban

• tesQtunal neighborhoods around the presi-
dwW palace also caused several U are*. The
s h dfl n g was aimed at regular Lebanese army
forces, according to the Phalangist radio.

vMewwhDe, the Lebanese government will
P|g'$10 million into a special fund to com-
pensate die families of victims of Israeli
attadcs on son them Lebanon, Finance Minis-
ter Ah Khalil said Wednesday. He said the
cabinet approved the allocation at hs weekly
session following the reorganization of the
Southern Lebanon Council, which would
ad m in ist e r the fond. The money is part of $25
raflfion earma rke d for the council from
money provided by Arab countries following
an Arab League meeting in Tuoialut month.

In Washington, Senate Republican leader
Howard Baker said Wednesday that U.S.
special Middle East envoy Philip Habib bad
left him with the impression that good prog-
ress had been made on ending the Lebanese
m iss fl e crisis. The senator said he discussed
the situation Tuesday with Habib, President
Reagan's emissary, who is preparing to
resume his diplomatic mission in the next few
days.

“ My impression is that there is good prog-
ress being made and there are reasonable
prospects that furfoerprogress can be made,”
Senator Baker said. He was speaking to
reporters after a meeting with Secretary of
State Alexander Haig. Senator Baker and
Senator Chari es Percy, chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were
Haig's guests at a hrnch honoring former
Senator Jacob Javits, who was named to be a
q>erial adviser to Haig.

Baker said they discussed several issues

in Beirut, Zahle

BOMBING: Israel has been Indtecrinitaatety bondring residential areas in Lebanon,
singling out areas inhabited by Palestinians. Several houses have been destroyed and
many killed in these senseless raids. Palestinian co mmando s are at the rite of a b u i lding
which has been reduced to a shambles in an Israeli attack.

with Haig, including the Lebanese crisis and
Syria, and the administration proposal to sell
Airborne Warning and Control System
(AWACS) planes to Saudi Arabia.

Baker said he thought it was now only a
matter of days or a few weeks before die
administration made a formal request to
Congress on the tale of die AWACS. He said
the U.S. was seeking a retain tq the status
quo in Lebanon before Syrian forces took
over certain high terrain and moved in
Soviet-made surface-to-air missiles which
Israel has threatened to attack. “A return to
die status quo obviously might include
Femoval of the missiles or some other proteo- .
lion against their use in an aggressive way”
he said. “Those axe matters which are*
actively being negotiated.

In London, Sir Ian Gibnoor, ^Britain's
deputy foreign secretary, said Wednesday
that Lebanese sovereignty and territorial
integrity must be respected. "This is essen-
tial,” he told a political meeting. “ Without it,
the Lebanese government wffl further be

weakened, as will their prospects of achieving
a political solution to the divisions within the
country. “And, just as dangerous, die risks of
another Arab- Israeli conflict being sparked
off from Lebanon will remain....”

In Brussels negotiations are in progress to
allow die burial in Israeli-occupied territory
of Haim Khader, the Palestine Liberation
Organization (PLO) representative in Bel-
gium who was assassinated Monday, Israeli
sources said Thursday. In exchange for per-
mission to bury him near his home town of
Zabaddeh, on the West Bank of the Jordan,
die Palestinians might return the bodies of
four Israeli soldiers killed In southern Leba-
non in 1978, they said. .

Negotiations were being conducted
through an intermediary approached by die
famili es- The president of die European par-
liament, Simone Veil, herself Jewish, asked
Israel through its ambassador in Brussels to
allow Khaderis burial on the West Bank. But
she is not acting as an intermediary, a
spokesman from her office said.

Association fined
for slighting Arabs

PARIS, June 4 (AFP) — A French
court Wednesday fined an association
here for anti- Arab racial discrimination.

The president of the "Association for
the Rehabilitation of Ex-prisoners”
(And), Cbanral Brad, and -« - m e mber - f
were each fined about $230 for “provok-
ing radii violence, hatred and discrimina-
tion” Arad published a review with car-
toons showing Arab leaders as profiteers
and comipt speculators using their oil
money to buy up French property.

Turkish general kills 1, injures 3

ISTANBUL, June 4 (Agencies^ — A
Turkish army , general killed a colonel and

wounded three other officers Wednesday
before trying to kill himself, apparently in a
fit of madness, military authorities
announced. An official statement said
Maj.-Gen. Mustafa Ozyazar, commander of
an arinored division in Edirne, near the Bul-
garian and Greek borders, opened fire with
his pistol during a military , briefing in -his
room.

The colonel died immediately after being
shot in the chest while the others were hit in
their legs and shoulders. The general then
shot himself in the head, hut he survived and
was taken to hospital. The statement said it

Russia calls Israel criminal

MOSCOW, June 4 (AP) — The Soviet
news agency Tass has charged that Israel is
Carrying out a "war of extermination” against
tile Arab people.

A Moscow-dated commentary by analyst
Ip ofdd Ponomaryov said: “Israel alone is
{pihy of criminal actions” in the Middle East,
tad that U-S. support for Israel amounts to
‘ direc t connivance.. .and encouragement to
ttrpetnue new crimes.” Referring to recent
sneli bombing raids in Lebanon, Tass said:
American- made bombs are dropped on the
«ebaneie k Israeli pilots are flying
Ueerican- built planes. These lethal weapons

for so-called defensive purposes. “But they
are being used by Tel Aviv for aggressive
purposes and outride of Israel. All this shows
that responsibility for the bloodshed in Leba-
non is borne along with Tel Aviv also by the
Washington administration.'’

A separate Tass commentary condemned
Egyptian President Anwar Sadit for his
meeting Thursday with Israeli PrimVMinister
Men ahem Begin. Tass commentator Georgy
Kuvaldin wrote, “Negotiating with the
aggressor in these conditions can be regarded
only as a cynical demonstration by the Sadat
regime of its commitment to its course of
betrayal and the selling of all Arab interests.”

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was believed the general had acted in a bout
of insanity.

Meanwhile, Turkish police are searching
for two right-wing extremists in connection
with the fake passport said to have been used
by Mehznet Agca, foe Turkish extremist
accused of shooting Pope John Paul II. The
affair of the. passport would be “clarified”
afterfoe arrest of Omcr Ay, 29, and Mustafa
-Onto; *24, foe state of siege coordination
council said here Wednesday announcing foe
search.

The passport used by Agca during his wan-
derings through Europe had been issued at
Nevsehir, southeast of Ankara, according to
foe council.

The 22-year-old convicted right-wing mur-
derer Cevdet Karakas was executed before
dawn Thursday, becoming foe fifth political
extremist banged in Turkey since foe new
government took over nine months ago.

BRIEFS

MONROVIA, (AFP) — Fourteen non-
commissioned officers and soldiers arrested
last week have admitted plotting to over-
throw Liberia's military regime, it was
announced here Wednesday. They are
accused of planning to kill foe principal
members of foe ruling military committee
which seized power on the west African state
in April last year.

NICOSIA, (R) — Cyprus President Spyros
Kyprianou will fly to Athens July l for talks
with the Greek government, it was officially
announced Wednesday. Kyprianou will stay
in Athens three days and will be a ccoropanied
by Foreign Minister Nicos Rolandis and the
Greek Cypriot negotiator in foe intercom-
munal tana, George loawes.

ISTANBUL, (AP) — A civilian court in
Canakkale has sentenced six treasure hunters
to one year in jail each for digging in state-
owned forests, the semi-official Antaolia
News Agency reported.

DACCA, (AFP) — The Bangladesh gov-
ernment has ordered a’ manivo rescue oper-
ation to seek survivors of a passenger motor
launch which capsized in an storm last Friday
on a coastal river. At least 18 persons were
known to have drowned but as many as 200
might have died in the accident.

YAOUNDE, (R) — Camroon in not con-
centrating troops on its border with Nigeria
following a skirmish last month which
sparked a diplomatic tow between the two
countries. Interior Minister Victor Ayissi
Muodo said.

MOSCOW,' (R) — Algerian President
Chadfi Benjedid will pay his first official visit
to die Soviet Union in the first half of this
month, Tass pews agency announced Thurs-
day.

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NEW DELHI, June 4 (AFP) — More than
a quarter of official cars in Kabul have bullet
boles in them and a dozen party and govern-
ment officials are being killed each week on
an average as rebel assassination squads step
up their hit rate, the English-language daily
The Statesman said Thursday, quatong “sev-
eral sources,”

The paper said the rebels had more and
better equipment than at any time before,
mduding hand-held Soviet-made SAM-7
missiles sent from Egypt and 20 millimeter
anti-aircraft guns of Chinese manufacture to
battle foe Soviet MI-24 helicopter gun ships.
While Afghan President B abrek Kaimafo
government “talks in terms of having fully
established a firm grip over Afghanistan”
repor ts indicated that the rebels were far
from finished, and government authority was
maintained only in foe major towns,” foe
report added.

Quoting “reliable sources,” it said the
fighters were achieving '‘dramatic successes”
with land mines which cannot be detected by
Soviet equipment because they contained no
metal. The Afghan Army was reduced to less
than 25,000 men, mainly unwilling draftees
“who defect to foe fighters the moment they
have the chance”, and was in poor shape.the
report added. “Its officer corps has been
repeatedly purged to foe extent that it is no
longer trusted by Soviet commanders with
any but the most routine guard duty” . Moscow
now had foe “brutal alternative? ’ of drasti-
cally increasing its forces in Afghanistan to
keep order “or accepting steadily foe rising
losses in men and material,” foe paper said.

Shagari urges Barre
to end Ogaden war

LAGOS, June 4 (AFP) — • Nigerian Presi-
dent Shehu Shagari has called on visiting
Somali head of state Muhammad Siad Barre
to seek “an urgent settlement” of foe conflict
with neighboring Ethiopia over foe Ogaden
region between the two countries.

Sbagarf s appeal was reported as foe two
men began their second round of talk* here
Wednesday. The Nigerian leader said the
conflict had caused “untold hardship” and
that Nigeria was “most anxious” to see peace
restored in foe region. “These conflicts not
only do not help the countries involved, they
divert attention from the great struggle to
free Africa from political and economic
bandage,” he said.

Gen. Siad Barre reportedly replied that
Somalia was ready to discuss the conflict with
other African countries as a means to restore
peace and prevent further bloodshed. The
Somali leader, who arrived here Tbesday,
will also visit foe northwestern state of
Sokoto, Sharaif s home state, near the border
with Niger.

DACCA, June 4 (Agencies) — Banglad-
esh Parliament, mourning the death by assas-
sination of President Zitup Rahman, Wed-
nesday pleaded for a political transition by
“Ballot not bullet " In foe speeches praising
foe slain leader, a number of parliamen-
tarians indicated concern that foe military
might step in to end a multi-party democratic
system which Zia had forged.

“Democracy must be protected, power
must be transferred peacefully through ballot
not bullet,” Prime Minister Shah Azizur
Rahman told foe 330-member body. He cal-
led for “massive national unity” as a weapon
to crush any “adventurism.”

The country is now led by acting President
Justice Abdus Sattar, a man of 75. According
to foe constitution, a presidential election
must be called within the next six months.
The- parliamentary makeup remains
unchanged, with Zia's Bangladesh National-
ist Party dominating foe dozen other rep-
resented political parties in holding 2S0 of
foe parliament’s 330 seats.

Well-informed observers note that foe
danger of another military intervention could
come if foe political parties — many of them

fractured internally — should fail to reach a
working census ana allow foe country to drift.
But Wednesday’s special parliamentary ses-
sion saw unity among pro-government as well
as opposition leaders in their praise of the
dead president and an abborance of what one
member called ”foe politics of IdDmg.”

Meanwhile, Indian troops stationed along
foe eastern border with Bangladesh were
alerted Wednesday to prevent the escape into
India of about 3,000 aimed Bangladesh army
rebels still hiding in Chittagong jungles after
participating in foe aborted coup in which
President Zia was killed, the United News of
India reported.

The alert followed a request by foe Bang-
ladesh government for Indian help in block-
ing escape routes of foe rebel army men,
whose leader, Maj. Gen. Muhammad Abdul
Manzur, was killed by angry government
troops after being captured, UNI said.

UNI said that about 4,000 rebel soldiers
surrendered to foe Bangladesh army after aH
supply routes were cut off to the insurgent
hideouts located in the rugged heavily-
wooded region, about 150 kilometers south-
.east of Dacca, the capital.

China promises to back Pakistan

* ISLAMABAD, June 4 (AFP) — Chinese
Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang Thursday
offered Pakistan foe help of foe Chinese peo-
ple in case of any foreign aggression on its
borders.

However, foe two countries do not have an
alliance or treaty, Pakistani President
Muhammad Zia ul-Haq said, adding that sol-
idarity among friendly countries could not be
forced. Speaking at -foe end of his four-day
official visit here, Zhao encouraged Pakis-
tan’s efforts to modernize its army by buying
large quantities of material from the United
States, under terms similar to those the Soviet
Union has granted to India.

He also expressed his approval in principle
of Pakistan’s right to reach a diplomatic solo- .
tion to foe Soviet intervention in A fghanis - -
tan, although he appeared to hold tittle hope
for any success.

“In Cambodia and Afghanistan, foe Soviet
Union is blazing a trail toward the Pacific
Ocean and the Indian Ocean to control world
oil resources ” he said. “A reasonable politi-
cal solution in Afghanistan is above all linked
to foe unity and progress of foe A f ghan resis-
tance.”

Despite his expressed pessimism over what
he called “foe serious expansionist threat”
posed by foe Soviet Union, he offered only
“political, moral and material aid,” appar-
ently not wanting to risk a direct Sino- Soviet
conflict.

Zhao and Gen. Zia are also likely spent
part of their four series of talks examining
Pakistan’s relations with India, which still
receives much of Pakistan's military atten-
tion. Relations between Islamabad and New .
Delhi were still uncertain, and have become .
more tense since Pakistan decided to buy
arms from foe U.S. One Pakistani officer in
Gen. Zia’s entourage said during Zhao’s visit _
that India has 12 divisions along foe Pakistani
border.

But both Zia and Zhao were conciliatory m
their public statements concerning India,
with which Peking also has been at odds in foe
past Meanwhile, Zia has accepted a Chinese
invitation to go to Peking, for foe third time
since 1977. The date for that trip is to be set
later.

COVER:

Italians are dominating the furniture
market in the Kingdom, reported
Javid Hasson on page 22, out
competition is growing from other
dealers and local manufacturers who
are helped by incentives.

OMAN'S LABOR:

Some 140,000 expatriates are
employed by Oman’s private sector,
reported Meredith Taylor from the
Gulf Bureau. Yet efforts are
underway to train Omanis and
prepare them to fill posts now held by
foreigners.

TOURISM:

It is summer and it is the travel season.
Al Haritby exhibitors arranged a
tourist exhibition to tell potential
tourists where to go and how to spend
their money. Ahmad KamalKhusro
went to the exhibition and filed his
impressions.

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WASHINGTON, June 4 (Agencies) —
Venezuela has shown interest in buying F-16
jet fighters from the United States and the
administration of President Ronald Reagan
is expected to approve it if it receives a formal
request, UJS. officials have said.

The officials said Wednesday the sale
would most likely be approved because of
Venezuela’s role as a major oil producer and
an increasingly influential force for modera-
tion in die Caribbean- Central American
area.

US. State Department spokesman Dean
Fischer said Venezuela has made no formal
request for the aircraft but has asked Amiri.
can officials for information about the plane.
Other officials, who asked 'not to be iden-
tified, said the State and Defense Depart-
ments 1m tot such a sale but that the final
decision would test with President Reagan.

One offi cial said: “There is every reason to
beHev ejto yencznelans will ask for the plane
and tl wM rflwH^tty we can turn them down.”
he sudwjoffiEQKhmpfio ts have test-flown the
F-16, cy» aP-lhe nation's most sophisticated
warplanes; The aircraft has been sold to only
a handful other foreig n countries.

Venezuela and the United States have had
an increasingly dose relationship in recent
'** sri ftfc along with Mexico and
pti^ftufity of a long-range
economic ^jdevoiopfnent plan for the region.

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flow since Congress, under the Carter
administration, restricted sales not certified
as vital to U.S. interests. U.S. officials said
Venezuela was believed to be interested in
baying about 28 of the $14 million jets.

Th e single-en gine F-16, capable of firing
heat-se^nbhniaiiles, has been sold to Israel
yd hrafa o being produced under

license byBogram, the Netherlands, Norway
and Denmark.

In a separate development. Vice President
George Bush, calling Cuba the chief threat to
peace in the Western hemisphere, vowed
Wednesday that the United States would
resist Cuban aggression and aid countries
vulnerable to intervention.

“Cubais the principal threat to peace in
th is rcgjflgfr^jftre at that is underwritten by
cgornWj H pB|M W subsidies to. tile Cuban'
arm,” Bush said in a,
for the Private Council of

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LONDON, June 4 (AFP) — Thousands of
blade children bom and bred in Britain may
have a shock in store when they apply for a
passport in years to come — they could be
asked to prove they are true Britons, it was
claimed in Parliament Wednesday.

During the second day’s report stage
deb.ate on the controversial nationality
bill,shadow Home Secretary Roy Hattersley
c laim ed the bill broke the 700-year- old prin-
ciple that every child bom in Britain automat-
ically became a British citizen.

Under the bill only children of parents law-
fully settled in Britain will be I British citi-
zens: children of parents later found to be
illegal immigrants or who have overstayed
their residence permit will be denied the status.

. Hattersley said the level of illegal immigra-
tion did not justify such action and would
cause uncertainty among thousands of
immigr ants

“In practice it will mean many British citi-
zens by birth will be required at some point in
their lives to prove they are British by birth in
a way no British dtizen has been asked to do
before,” he said.

It would be blai£ and not white children
who would be asked to provide such proof, be
said: “It will not be the children and grand-
children of members of parliament but those
of i mm igrants who have to show they are free
and equal citizens.”

Hattersley said that the shock for black
youngsters would come when they needed a
passport or wanted to join the army or civil
service and were then asked to prove they
were British dtizens.

Liberal leader David Steel accused the
government of heading toward the creation
of a “pass-law society” (the South African
apartheid system) in Britain. He said the bin
had aroused fears that “ under a very different
government and a very different home sec-
retary” immigrant parents might not be able
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Enoch Powell, the Ulster Unionist MP,
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through a burning prison Wednesday, flush-
ing out the last of almost 300 prisoners who
had taken over the facility with baseball bats
and pipes and rioted through the night.

Canadian prison spokesman Jack Stewart
said at least seven inmates suffered injuries,
aD relatively minor. There were no reports of
injuries to prison employees, police or sol-
diers.

By early afternoon, most of the 288 rioting
inmates had surrendered and stood sullen-
faced and hunched against a pelting rain in a
yard behind a high wire fence. Smoke still
rose above the lush green farmland near fhk
Fraser River valley community, located
about 48 kms east of Vancouver.

A final sweep at early in the afternoon
turned up the last nine holdouts who offered
only “token resistance,” acting warden Nor-
man Blamire said. The riot, believed trig-
gered by a complaint about working condi-
tions in the kitchen of the federal medium-
security prison, caused “massive'’ damage to
a dining hall, three-story dormitory, gym-
nasium, chapel, stores and administration
building, Stewart- said.

He raid damage may run into millions of
dollars. At one point, 40 percent of the prison
was on fire, he said. The Canadian armed
forces were asked to lend 10-man tents to
house inmates because of damage to dor-
mitories.

Smoke quitters
cut disease risk ,
U.S. study says

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 4 (AP)
~ A study comparing the health of people
who quit smoking and those who keep
puffing provides' new evidence that kick-
ing the cigarette habit will cut in half the
nsk of dying from heart disease.
America's biggest killer.

The report rebuts the arguments of
those who say it is some other weakness,
not cigarettes, that makes smokers more
susceptible to heart trouble.

The new study said that even when all
known differences between smokers and
quitters are considered, people who stop
smoking are far more likely to escape seri-
ous heart disease.

“Until someone comes up with other
ideas about what these differences might
be that could explain away such a enefidal
effect of quitting, we would have to con-
dude that quitting itself seems to be bene-
□ciaT Dr. Gary D. Friedman, who
directed the study, said in an interview.

The study was conducted at the
Kaiser-Permanent Medical Care Program
m Oakland, California, and published in
Thursday’s issue of the New England
Journal of Medicine.

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Nancy Reagan to attend
Charles-Diana wedding

WASHINGTON, June 4 (AP) — ' ' First
lady Nancy Reagan, but not President
Ronald Reagan, will attend the weddinghi
July of Prince Charles and Lady Diana
Spencer, Mrs. Reagan's spokesman has said.

Press secretary Sheila Tate, announced
Wednesday that Mrs. Reagan had accepted
the invitation. The wedding will be inLon-
don.

*7 10 ver Y ha PPy and flattered to be asked
and I am excited at the
prospect of being present at such an historic
and romantic occasion,” Mrs. Tate quoted
Mrs. Reagan as saying. The spokesman said
that she did not know whether the first lady
who has not yet traveled overseas as the wife
of the president would make any other stops
on the tnp. ^ ,

White House aides said the president
decided not to attend the wedding *& he does
not want his first trip to Europe as president
to be for a soda! occasion. They also said
Reagan will be heavily involved in July in
preparing for, and attending, the Ottawa
•‘summit" meeting of Western leaders.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 (AFP) -
South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan
arrives here June 29 on the second leg of a
state visit to southeast Asian countries. The
president and his wife will be accompanied by
a high-power delegation including Deputy
Prime Minis ter Shin Byong Hyun, Foreign
. Minister Rob Shin- Yong and other cabinet
ministers and officials.

Hie two-week tour taking in Jakarta,
Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Bangkok and
Manila — the five members of the Associa-
tion of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN) —
is considered “very significant” , four months
after President Chun’s visit to Washington
for talks with President Ronald Reagan.

A South Korean official said the visit— the
first by a South Korean president to the reg-
ion — reflected die importance Seoul
attached to ASEAN, politically as well as
economically. “ Our leaders look at the reg-
ion with keen interest. ASEAN’s role is very
significant, not only economically but m
main taining peace in southeast Asia,” die
official said.

ASEAN has also won South Korean admi-
ration with its common stand on the Cambo-
dian problem which South Korea shared, be
added. There were other common problems
and interests between South Korea and
ASEAN where complementary relations
were desirable.

S.African protests continue

JOHANNESBURG, June 4 ( AP) - Riot
police moved into the mixed-race townships
Thursday to disperse a group of 200 persons
who were stoning cars, Divisional Police
Commissioner Brig. Gert Kruger said.

The mixed-race townships of New dare,
Bosmont and Coronation- Vihe, where stu-
dent protests Wednesday were quashed by
police using attack dogs, tear gas and dubs,
had been sealed off Wednesday night and
were reported quiet Thursday morning.

Attendance at tire three secondary schools
involved in the demonstrations was
extremely low, according to the South Afri-
can Press Association.

The acting leader to the opposition Progres-
sive Freedom Party, Colin Eglin, contacted
Minister of Police Louis le Grange, for assur-
ances that allegations of police brutality

against pupils Wednesday would be investi-
gated.

Eglin, said Louis le Grange had assured
him that police action would be carefully
inve stigated. Le Grange said he would not
tolerate any excessive violence from the
police. David Curry, national chairman of the
(colored) Labor Party, urged Le Grange to
hold immediate talks with senior police offic-
er-

Javits named adviser

WASHINGTON, June 4 ( AP) — Jacob K.
Javits, the former New York senator, has
been appointed a special adviser to Secretary
of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr., the State
Department has announced. Dean Fischer,
the State Department spokesman, said the
position will be a part-time one.

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Third World

Comecon belies Poland’s hopes debts may hit

$100b mark

SOFIA, July 4 (AFP) - The Communist
comecon trading bloc, which was ending a
“ree^day 35 th session here Saturday, has not
approved any measures to help Poland in the
iT l 1 lenn ’ “fanned sources said.

Poland's proposals were given a careful
nearing and Warsaw’s representatives were
not criticized, but no positive response could
be made quickly, reliable sources added. In
order to obtain aid, Poland would have to
negotiate bilateral agreements with other
Comecon members, these sources said.

Buta member of the Hungarian delegation
raid in private he regretted that Poland's rep-
resentatives were unable to provide precise
information on their economic plans and
needs. “In effect, they came here in search of
political support,” die Hungarian delegate
said.

Polish officials said particularly they
wanted their partners to send them die raw
materials needed to m ain twin output from
Polish factories, many of which have cut or
halted output. But competition in th»s area is
strong as most Eastern bloc countries are also
short of raw materials, a fact stressed by
Romanian Prime Minister Manea Manescu.

According to a Polish source, Poland’s best
hope of help lay in the Soviet Union, and
there have been references to possible
deliveries of cotton for Poland’s textile indus-
try. Soviet aid now consists mainly of continu-
ing deliveries under earlier contracts, though
Poland is unable to fulfil its commensurate

export obligations.

Reliable sources said other East European
countries did not have the same attitude and
were retaliating to PoUlantfs failure to
deliver, as permitted under the contracts. In
general terms, the Comecon meeting here did
not appear to have made much progress in
solving problems of cooperation within the
socialist camp, though Soviet Prime Minister
Nikolai Tikhonov Friday night reported the
signing of “important agreements” without
giving details.

Reliable sources said these involved coop-
eration agreements covering micro-
electronic components, standardization of
telephone systems, and nickel extraction and
fruit and vegetable production in Cuba. No
real progress was made on one of the most
sensitive points — reform of the system of
payment which is strongly desired by some
Eastern bloc countries, but apparently
blocked by the Soviet Union.

In addition, a plan to coordinate national
plans for the years 1981 to 198S has still not
been completed even though *e main out-
lines have been drafted. This is because
Poland has not yet drawn up its own five-year
plan, and because some other socialist coun-
tries are apparently moving toward a revision
of their plans to give greater importance to
meeting consumer demand.

Meanwhile, there is now a greater likeli-
hood that a Comecon economic summit.

attended by Communist party leaders, will be
held. Several speakers, including the Soviet
premier, raised this here. The meeting might
even be held in the fairly near future, an East
European source indicated.

Earlier Hungarian Premier Gyorgy Lazar
urged members to honor their trade agree-
ments with each otheT. If the East bloc coun-
tries are to meet their targeted economic
goals, l-a?ar said, they will have to increase
mutual trade.

The chief means of improving cooperation
among members of Comecon is to fulfill “all
contractual obligations,” he said in remarks
reported by the Hungarian news agency Moi.

Meanwhile, the Bulgarian Communist
Party newspaper RabotmChesko Ddo ignored
General Jaruzdskf s speech which also con-
tained a strong reaffirmation of his govern-
ment’s commitment to reform. The news-
paper published a long article saying the Pol-
ish leadership had still not taken strong
enough measures against counter-
revolutionary forces.

Following the departure of General
Jaruzelski Friday, the Polish delegation has
been led by Deputy Prime Minister Meiczys-
law Jagielski, Warsaw's main negotiator with
the Solidarity free trade union during the
strikes last August.

Except for statements of concern by the
Mongolian and Vietnamese delegates, the
Polish issue has been officially avoided in
speeches.

GENEVA, July 4 (AP) — Total debts of
the developing countries producing no o3
may reach $100 billion this year and for some
among them have become intolerable, Jac-
ques de Larosiere, managing director of the
International Monetary Fund has said.

“Imbalances of this magnitude cannot be
sustained,” he told the United Nations
Economic and Social Council Friday. He said
both industrial and developing countries
must reduce their deficits if the international
financial system “is to remain viable.”

“The flow of international financing .. will
serve no purpose if it is used only to spend on
consumption,” but it must serve to increase
productive investment in the debtor coun-
tries to improve their capacity to repay their
external debt, be said.

He said that while the current account sur-
pluses of the oil-exporting countries rose to a
total of $112 billion last year, the industrial
states which together still had a surplus of $30
billion in 1978 ran up a combined deficit of
$44 billion in 1980 . He said current projec-
tions indicate the total debt of the advanced
states will decline to $30 billion this year,
while that to the non-oil producing states was
expected to approach $100 billion, up from
$82 billion in 1980.

Japan to boost

EEC reform may upset Danish apple cart eec imports

COPENHAGEN. July 4 (R) —
Denmark’s farmers, hit hard by the worst
financial crisis since the 1930s, could be dealt
another severe blow by plans to reform the
European Economic Community (EE Q
common agricultural policy.

Danish government offi cials and farming
lobbies have sharply criticized a recent EEC
commission blueprint to streamline the
budget of die 10-state community and adjust
farm price mechanisms in order to reduce
disparities felt most strongly by Britain.

“Denmark will under no circumstances
accept changes in the basic principles under-
lying the common agricultural policy,” a
senior government official said. Denmark
joined the EEC in 1973.

The commission’s proposals, announced
last week by commission President Gaston
Thorn, aim to place greater emphasis on reg-
ional and social spending, and to strive lor
what the commission sees as a more dynamic
EEC farm export policy. To help Britain
benefit from extra EEC spending on regional
and sodal projects, the intention implicit in
the proposals would be to transfer financial
resources from the richer EEC countries to
the poorer, with most of the bill footed by
wealthier states, such as Denmark and the
Benelux countries, Danish government offi-

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dais said.

Both the Danish government and the coun-
try’s agricultural sector are wary of Thorn’s
daims that the EECs eight million farmers
could lose nothing in farm price support
revenues as a result of a spedai agricultural
mechanism proposed last week.

Under the plan, the mechanism would
align British receipts from European Com-
mon Market funds more to the relative
importance of its economy as a whole.

What the Danes fear most at a time of
financial crisis in the forming sector are com-
mission suggestions that the British refund, if
not financed directly by the budget, would be
financed by reductions in the reimburse-
ments to EEC governments for their expen-
diture on farm price support, the officials
said.

Danish Agricultural Council President
Hans Kjeldsen estimates that plans to reduce
such reimbursements, if adopted, would cost
Danish agriculture about 600 minion crowns
annually in lost EEC benefits. “It does not
make sense that Britain, because of a small
agricultural output and thereby less income
from the EEC. is repaid billions (of crowns)
year after year, particularly at the expense of
Danish farmers who have relatively laige and
efficient production,” Kjeldsen said in an
interview.

Arne Christiansen, chairman of the Danish
parliamentary committee responsible for
farms affairs and a Liberal Parry member,
said the EEC reform proposals as they stand
favor those countries with small agricultural

Job problem
haunts Britons

LONDON, July 4 (AP) — Inflation,
strikes, crime and the troubles in Northern
Ireland are all dwarfed by the No. I prob-
lem worrying people in Britain today —
having a job.

That’s the finding of an opinion poll
published in the London New Standard on
Friday afternoon. Nearly seven out of 10
voters said unemployment was the biggest
issue facing the country with 2.68 million
people, 11.1 percent of the work force,
without a job, the highest figure for half a
century. Rfty-two percent of those ques-
tioned in the market and opinion research
poll said the economy will only get worse
over the next year, and 68 percent expre-
ssed dissatisfaction with prime minister
Margaret Thatcher’s government. Asked
who would make the better prime minis-
ter, Mrs. Thatcher or opposition Labor
leader Michael Foot, 40 percent chose
Thatcher, 35 percent Foot and the rest
didn't know.

production and would force member coun-
tries to extend or re-introduce national farm
subsidies.

“J urge the Danish government to exercise
its power of veto in die community and to
dissociate itself strongly from a reform which
would have disastrous consequences for Dan-
ish agriculture,” Christiansen added.

Government officials quoted Thorn as say-
ing to Danish Prime Minister Anker Joergen-
sen during a visit to Copenhagen last week
that the effects of the commission’s proposals
on Denmark .were solely a question of an
accounting change between the EEC and the
Danish state treasury. Hie Danish govern-
ment was quick to dispute this, they said.

Thorn, during his Copenhagen visit as part
of a tour of the EEC capitals to inform Euro-
pean government leaders of details of the
plans, met strong criticism over the reform
proposals from the Danish Sodal Democrat
minority government, senior officials said.
Both government and opposition feel the cri-
ticism to be well founded at a time when
Danish farming is hard-pressed to make ends
meet, the offidals added.

The evidence of crisis in the fanning sector
continues to increase. According to figures
released by the Agricultural Council, the
umbrella organization for Danish farming
assoriations, the total net income derived
from forming fell to 1.9 billion crowns ($255
million) last year from 62 billion ($832 mil-
lion) in 1978. The council forecasts that
1 ,800 forms will be foreclosed this year com-
pared with about 600 in 1980, and about
twice as many farmers will sell their holdings
to avoid foreclosure this year.

Out of II 9,000 farms registered last year,
the forecast rate of foredo6ures in 1981 is
comparable to the closures seen during the
recession of the 1 930s, farming experts said.

According to the Danish Mortgage Insti-
tute, a large finandal institution lending
funds to fanners and sectors of industry,
about 25 percent of farms have fallen behind
on this year's mortgage payments. Fanning
production is stagnating. Beef and poultry
production fell an average three percent last
year after a four percent drop in 1979. The
reasons for the crisis are manifold, but are
primarily of a structural nature, say the farm-
ing experts.

TOKYO, July4 (AFP) — Japan is to set up
a council to promote die import of European
industrial products in response to European
Economic Co mmuni ty requests for better
access to the Japanese market, it was
reported here Saturday.

The Nihon Ketztd economic paper said that
on July 14 International Trade and Industry
Minister Rokusnke Tanaka will call on die
industrial sector to try to increase its efforts to
import from the European community. Hie
government’s moves follow Tanaka's recent
tour of several European countries.

The paper said the government plans to
take similar measures for products from the
United States and from the developing coun-
tries with severe trade deficits.

The proposed council will comprise die
ministries of finance, foreign affairs, interna-
tional trade and industry and agriculture,
forestry and fisheries and the chief cabinet
minister.

Cost prohibits
tapping solar
satellite power

■ WASHINGTON, July 4 ( AP) — A prop-
osed system of giant solar satellites that
would beam power back to earth would be so
large and costly that it may not be feasible,
according to a National Academy of Sciences
study released here.

The report by the academy’s national-
research council Friday said a cautiously
favorable department of energy study last
year seriously underestimated the costs of the
proposal. The previous estimated price tag of
$13 trillion dollar is “two and a half times too
low, even in die most optimistic view,” said
the research council study.

Because of costs and technical problems
that must be overcome with die satellite sys-
tem, the new study recommended against
spending any research and development
money on it in the next decade. It recom-
mended that instead, U.S. government agen-
cies monitor relevant technical developments
during that time and report to Congress
periodically on useful advances that might
apply.

Trade offensive

France cautions Japan

PARIS, July 4 (AFP) — French Foreign
Minister Claude Cheysson has called on
Japan to live up to its international economic
responsibOities and warned that Japan could
cause serious problems if it made “too rapid,
too brutal” forays into foreign markets.

In wide-ranging remarks Friday to the
Anglo-American Press Club here, Cheysson
also vowed that France would not accept
policies that would hurt “little countries",
called the upcoming Ottawa summit one of
the most important ever for France, stressed
the need for revamped North-South rela-
tions, and warned against the use of force in
unsettled central American nations.

“The Japanese must take into account when
their penetration (bn foreign markets) is too
rapid, too brutal, and creates very serious
problems for us," Cheysson said. “It isn't
enough for them to respond with statistics or
by smiles around a language that none of us
understands anyway,” he said.

“We would truly like the Japanese to par-
ticipate in world responsibilities,” be said.
Cheysson also indicated chat there may be a
showdown with the U.S. at the Ottawa sum-
mit later this month of seven industrialized
nations over the importance of the North-
South relations.

France considers the North-South issue
“much more important” than the United
States due to deeper trade links, Cheysson
said. The Americans also tend to see
economic problems in isolation, he said.

“If President Ronald Reagan could come
to Ottawa with the conviction that North-
South is a top priority subject with his allies
then I think that Ottawa would have been

very important,” he said. “We would like the
Americans to understand that all subjects are
linked.”

“One cannot simply speak about the fight
against inflation without evoltiog other

economic and sodal aspects,” be said, con-
tinuing his Sodalist government’s bard hit-
ting attacks on continued high US. interest
rates. Qieysson said the summit was also of
major importance to France because it will be
the first face-to-face meeting between
Reagan and French President Francois Mit-
terrand.

Saying his government stressed humanist
values, Cheysson said France “win not accept
economic polities that bring suffering down
upon the smallest countries.” He expressed
concern about developments in El Salvador,
Nicaragua and Guatemala and said that force
was not the answer in Latin America whether
used by the government, the opposition or
outsiders.

“We wish that each of these peoples has
tiie best chance to express itself democrati-
cally,” Cheysson aid. “The only policy poss-
ible with these countries is to aid them in the
period that follows their independence.”

He said the French government’s polities
of humanism win lead Paris repeatedly to
denounce the Soviet intervention in
Afghanistan as “intolerable” and die pres-
ence of Vietnamese forces in Kampuchea as
“unacceptable”.

He also reiterated his government's fun-
damental support of the Atlantic alliance,
saying that is “where we are the best allies of
the United States.”

3-fold rise in energy demand seen

BRUSSELS, July 4 (R) — Developing
countries will require at least a three-fold rise
in energy supplies by early next century to
meet their minimum needs, Enrique Iglesia,
secretary-general of the United Nations.Con-
ference on New energy sources has said.

Rapid population growth meant develop-
ing countries would need more oil and other

conventional resources, more alternative
forms of energy and also improved conserva-
tion programs, he told a press conference
Friday.

Iglesia said research into new energy
sources should be stimulated by next month’s
U.N. conference on the subject in Nairobi,
Kenya, which should also promote help for
the developing countries in energy pla n ning.

will ^

Rival deposit rates nse

By JJL Hammond

JEDDAH, July 4 — Hte dollar closed the
week on a relatively high note and the
finandal markets seem to have resigned
themselves for the time being of seeing a
continuation of the presort high dollar
interest rate polities. Riyal deposit rates
continued to climb along with die dollar,
but with a differential in rates in favor of the
dollar.

On Saturday, local and Bahrain dealers
reported little inter-bank trading, with
many institutions squaring books for the
half-year financial dosings. However, local
commercial demand for the dollar con-
tinued with traders and importers taking
advantage of die dollar’s rise against most
major currencies.

With Federal Reserve “Fed funds” rates
reaching nearly 32 percent at one stage
Thursday, the money markets have con-
cluded that, unless a switch of monetary
policy emphasis is made, U.S. monetary
policy will be one of tight credit control. The
one-month Eurodollar deposit rates were
quoted at 18 Vs — 18 % percent Friday
dose and the one-year rate edged higher to
stand at 16 V* — 17 percent . The trend for
higher rates was encouraged by Chase
Manhattan’s move late last week when it
raised its prime interbank leading rate to
20 Vfe -percent from the previous level of 20
percent Other * major U.S. banks are
expected to follow suit

Locally, foe past week has seen riyal

deposit rates reverse their downward slide
and rise with the dollar. One-month JBOR
rate which had averaged at 8 Vs — 9 percent
only 10 days ago, was reported at 16 Vi —
17 percent on Saturday. Similar increased
in local rates took place in foe long tenors
with foe one-year rate adding nearly 2 per-
cent to be now quoted at. 15 Vi — 15 %
percent Bahrain brokers reported some
demand for short date funds which took
week-fixed rates to 17 Vi — 18 percent and
there was some inter-bank overnight activ-
ity reported in Jeddah at similar, levels.
Most dealers were cautious in their assess-
ment of how rates would open on Monday
sayidg that they were keenly watching how
foe dollar performs when the European
exchanges open Monday. So for though
there seems to be some liquidity injections
made which has kept rates stable and con-
tributed to the 2-3 percent'* GAP” between
die dollar and riyal rates.

On the local exchanges, spot nyal/doUer
rates were quoted at 3.41 40-50- but with
little interbank dealing. Hie high spot value
indicated through some strong demand for
the dollar in anticipation of further dollar
gains on foe European exchanges. With the
dollar at 1.8809 against the pound, 2.4104
against foe mark and 228.06 against foe
yen, there is some apprehension befog
expressed that foe dollar might become
over-valued and face a steep fall if U.S.
dollar interest rates cannot be sustained at
their present levels.

Mexico loses top oil buyers

MEXICO CITY, July 4 (AP) — Because
of a world surplus and Mexico’s hints that it
would boost prices and offer its oil on a take-
it-or leave it basis, five foreign buyers have
suspended or canceled purchases of Mexican
crude. More may do so.

The suspensions total about 410,000 bar-
rels a day and are costing Mexico, about
$13.2 minion daily. Mexico gets about SO
percent of its foreign revenue from oil.

Mexican offers to Japan and Canada to buy
the resulting surplus have gone unheeded.
Both were clamoring for more Mexico OS a
few months ago.

' The loss is feeling more rumors of a
devaluation and may be leading Pemex, foe
state-owned petroleum monopoly, to recon-
sider its proposed increase in the price of its
beavy-grade Maya crude from $28 to $30.

' The latest announced suspension, by
France, which buys 100,000 barrels a day
from Mexico, apparently ' caught foe Mexicans
by surprise. As late as June 26 Julio Rodolfo
Moctezuma Cid, the new director of Pemex,
said rumors of the French move were
unfounded and said France was considering
increasing its purchases. The suspension is
effective for three months starting July 1; .

Exxon Corp. of the United States
announced it will stop. buying Mexican oil.
Exxon had a contract permitting it to buy up

to 175,000 barrels a day. Shell' oil said it is
considering a similar move.

The Philippines and India also have sus-
pended or reduced pruchases of Mexican
crude -since June. The suspensions have clip-
ped Mexican oO exports by about one third.

Although ofl industry sources are reporting
the increase as final, a Pemex spokesman said
Friday the monopoly is “still negotiating"

with its customers.

Turkey to make
lira convertible

ANKARA, July 4 (R) — Turkey has
decided in principle to make foe lira a fully
convertible currency, but foe necessary
economic conditions are likely to take three
years to achieve, the head of foe state plan-
ning organization said in an interview pub-
lished Saturday.

Yildirim Aktnrk, who has foe rank of
under-secretary, said in foe interview with
foe Anka Economic News Agency that infla-
tion would have to come down to a rate of 15
percent before the currency could be fully
convertible.

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Arrival

Date

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AA

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7.7.81

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Abdallah

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S.CSA

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El Hawi

Reefer

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35.

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Algoseibi

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4.731

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FA.M.E.

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Gulf

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Mighty Wind

SEA

Bariey/Gen.

22.631

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General

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General

29.631

10.

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Sea

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11.

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Orri

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28.631

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Alsabah

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3.731

13.

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OCE

General

1.731

14.

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Kanoo

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IS.

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16.

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17.

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UEP

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2.731

18.

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Globe

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25.631

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Kanoo

3.731

28.

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Barber

Gen/Conts

3.7.81

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2.731

31.

Topusto

Kanoo

General

2.731

33.

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ACT

Steel/Gen.

3.731

34.

Hong Chun

Orri

General

27.631

35.

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Alsaada

Steel

26331

36.

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Alsabah

Cement Silo VSL

4.1.78

37.

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EXPOSING ISRAEL’S LIES

Debates in the Israeli parliament proved, beyond any
doubt, that at least part of the leadership of the Leban-
ese Phalangist Party has been and is in active collabora-
tion and coordination with Israel. The fact has been too
hard for many to accept. But now that the Israeli official
confirmation of it has surfaced, it can no longer be
evaded or denied.

At the same time, to say that part of the Phalangist
leadership has collaborated — the part headed by Bashir
Gemayel — is to say that another part has rejected such
collaboration and is known to favor an understanding
with Syria.

The main point here is that Israel has used the collab-
oration of part of the Phalangist leadership as a base to
its claim to be the “protector -of the Christians in Leba-
non.” The observable, demonstrable facts of life in
Lebanon however, show that most of the Christians are
not supporters of the Phalangists and that the majority
does not live in the areas under Phalangist control.
Moreover; many of those Christians have fought with
parties and organizations opposing the Phalangists.

It is thus necessary always to make a distinction bet-
ween the Lebanese Christians as whole, and those of
them who support Bashir Gemayers line, a distinction
made most vocally and insistently by former president
Suleiman Frpnjieh, the Maronite leader and enemy of
the Phalangists, among many others.

To say it is neither to exaggerate the rift within the
Phalangists between the “pro- Israeli” and the “pro- I
Syrian” outlooks, nor to minimize the danger posed to
Lebanon as a whole as a result of the collaboration
between Israel and the Phalangists . It is to expose
Israels lies and enlighten the international public opin-
ion about the dangers its aggressive policies pose to the
peace of the area as a whole.

Northern Ireland’s fateful inheritance

By Robert Little

When King William of Orange, die Dutch Protes-
tant Prince who shared die British throne by mar-
riage to his Royal Stuart wife Mary, defeated the
Irish Catholic tribes in 1696 at the Battle of the
River Boyne, he laid the foundations for the Maze
Prison hunger strike and all of Northern Ireland’s
present day violence.

Like the Israeli Zionist settlements today in the
traditional Palestinian homelands. King “Billy,” as
the Paisleyite Protestant Orangemen refer to him,
had a similar idea then. To secure a permanent hold
on his conquered territories in the North of the
island he shipped over from die British mainland,
particularly from the West of Scotland, his own
army of Protestant settlers who evicted die Irish
peasants from their land and established their own
communities.

It is those six Northern counties that form today
the British-controlled Province of Ulster. The wish
of the six counties to remain under the British
Crown was agreed to in 1922 with the setting up of
the independent Republic of Ireland. So while the
Republic in die South has always been staunchly
Catholic, the Northern counties continue to be a
stronghold of reformist Protestanism. In consequ-
ence, in the language of present day Irish politics., to
be a CathoKcis to be a Republican, to be Protestant
is to be a Loyalist Ulsterman.

Without at least this brief, simplified knowledge
of die island's bistory, it is impossible for anyone to
even begin to understand anything of the deep-
rooted, sectarian hatreds that plague Northern Ire-
land’s political scene. Yet in spite of this the irony is
that when, rune years ago, the present spate of
disturbances began the problem had no connection
with the IRA's current campaign for a united Ire-
land. The disputes and arguments started with the
justifiable claims of the Catholic citizens of Ulster
for a representative voice in determining the pro-
vinces political and economic affairs.

As a distinctive minority, from the beginning the
Northern Catholic were discriminated against and
boundaries were drawn and voting was manipu-
lated to exdude them from all the decision making
processes of national and local government. Uls-
ter's parliament at Stormont was, from the first
elections in 1922, dominated by the conservative
Ulster Unionists’ Party, which in its turn was the
political arm of the ultra-Protestant Orange Order
secret sodety.

And from the outset in education, employment,
bousing and all the other social amenities, blatant
discrimination was practised against the Catholic
families. It was solely because of this that in the
early seventies their leaders, supported by the
Catholic Church, decided to take matters into their
own hands. Public protests and demonstrations

were die result which led to frequent angry clashes
between the two sides. Then with the involvement
of die British parliament at Westminster coundess,
studies, consultations and conferences, including
the dissolving of the Stormont parliament inBetfast,
failed to find a solution. The bigotry on both sides
had become too firmly ingrained for any sense of
reason to prevail.

The result is what we see today. Frustrated
Catholics resorted to seeking the aid of their more
militan t friends and allies in the Irish Republican
Army which resulted in the Protestants forming
their Ulster Defease Force and other paramilitary
organizations. Since then violence has played an
increasingly dominant part with the British Army,
in its attempted peace-keeping role, being the
target of hostility from both sides.

To most of the Catholic minority the British
military presence is seen as just another way of
keeping the Protestant majority in their old posi-

tions of dominance and power. But to die extremist
Protestants they are looked upon as the symbol of a
Westminster governments interference that is
denying the majority the right to run their own
affair*; ns they think best. So now the cry from the
Catholics is for a united Ireland — the onion of the
mainly Protestant Northern six countries with the
overwhelmingly Catholic Republic of Ireland in the
South. For the one and a half milli on Protestants in
the North the rallying ca ll goe s out “To King Billy
and a Protestant Ulster For Ever
As for Britain’s position the reality of the situa-
tion is that after nearty 300 years it is reaping the
legacy of hate sown with the 1696 immigrant plan-
tations. What is more to the point is how will it all
end? WiD die men of violence, on both sides, suc-
ceed where reason hasso far failed? It is a sad fact of
recent history that in so many cases in the beginning
violence has been a necessary prerequisite of inde-
pendence movements to bring die adversaries

together around the negotiating table. But in the
end it was through negotiation that peace and inde-
pendence were finally achieved. And so irwill be in
die case of Northern Ireland.

Whether the independent arbiters are tile EEC,
the European parliament or whoever is acceptable
to all sides in the conflict, peace will only return to
the streets of Ulster when the British government,
the. Republic of Ireland government, with represen-
tatives of both sides in the North’s present conflag-
ration decide to sit down around the table to ham-
mer out a lasting solution.

Passing resolutions in the U.S. Senate or sending
diplomats to hunger strikers funerals can only
exacerbate an already inflamed situation. If die
United States government' wishes to play a mean-
ingful role in solving the Irish problem then let
President Reagan, quietly and diplomatically, use
his good offices to bring all the conflicting particip-
ants together. Better still, let it.be soon!

Zimbabwe’s guerrillas disarmed

By Jay Ross

SALISBURY —

All former guerrillas in assembly points in Zim b-
babwe have been disarmed, the head of the coun-
try’s joint military command said recently. The
move is likely to have far- reaching impact in
stabilizing this war- tom Southern African nation,
which formerly was known as Rhodesia.

“Now there can no longer be an all-out dash”
between factions loyal to Prime Minister Robert
Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, his former guerrilla
rival, a Western diplomat said. He called the com-
pletion of the disarmament process one of die most
significant achievements since independence 14
months ago in winding down the military aftermath
of seven years of guerrilla war. The hostile guerrilla
groups dashed in November and February in the
southwest part of the country, killin g about 400
people, inducting many civilians.

There are still fears, however, that many of the
former guerrillas have access to several thousand
weapons stashed in the countryside. Others, refus-
ing to be disarmed, have left their camps and have
taken up a life of crime, a problem that could take
years to resolve. The caches, however, are fair cry
from the huge supplies of armaments that almost
20,000 former guerrillas from both sides had avail-
able until recently. Nkomo' s forces, the major
threat to Mugabe’s government, had tanks,
armored vebides, artillery and anti-aircraft mis-
siles.

Emmerson Mnangagwa, the military chief who
announced the completion of the process, said in a
telephone interview that about 18,000 men had

been disarmed in seven camps around die country.
He ordered the newly integrated National Army,
made up ot troops from the farmer Rhodesian
forces plus those loyal to Mugabe and Nkomo, to
cany out the disarmament three months ago,
shortly after the February violence.

At the time, few people thought the process
would go so smoothly, quickly and without major
violence by Nkomo’sforoes, who are annoyed at his
party’s low-level role in government. In the only
serious incident, three National Army soldiers were
ambushed and killed by dissident Nkomo followers
in March.

(i I didn’t think it would be achieved so quickly
and without resistance,” said a white official who
previously served in sensitive positions in the illegal
white government of Ian Smith. He quickly added,
however, “I have no confidence that this is the end
of (he problem of weaponry .... It doesn’t mean the
country is free of weapon-toting louts”

Mnangagwa said that Nkomo’ s 4,000 troops at
Gwai River near Victoria Falls had been tile last to
be disarmed, with the process completed last
month. That had been the touchiest camp because

flic former guerrillas had considerable heavy
armaments, whid^ were removed earlier last
month. Each camp is now left with just a few armed
sentries, Mnangagwa said.

Ironically, the February violence, which centered
around the black township of Entumbane in
Bulawayo, speeded the disarmament process.
About 300 people were killed in the fighting, which
temporarily set bade prospects for foreign invest-
ment An angry Mugabe ordered the disarmament
and told “-All who challenge the authority of my
government” that “I am determined to descend on
them with a hammer.”

Completion of the disarmament does not end
Zimbabwe’s military difficulties. The key problem
is the integration of the two former guerrilla armies
and the former Rhodesian security forces into a
unified national army. Mnangagwa estimated that
tiie total number of armed forces, in the three
groups, including guerrillas still being trained out-
side the country, is 65,000, Upward of 30,000
former guerrillas have been integrated with about
5,000 of the security forces. (WF),

Saudi Arabian Press Review

In its weekend edition. A! Medina led with die
Islamic Foreign Ministers’ unanimous denunciation
of Libyan vituperations against Saudi Arabia. It
■said that the Libyan delegate’s remarks were not
included in the minutes of the conference in Bagh-
dad. Al Medina also gave top coverage to a report by
its political correspondent, in which he said that
PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat has told Libyan
leader Muammar Qaddafi that the Palestinian
revolution ha not received any support or assistance
from Saudi Arabia. The paper expressed deep
regret and shock over this statement and asked
Arafat to be bold enough to give a public explana-
tion of what happened during his talks with Qad-
dafi.

Meanwhile, Al Riyadh said in a lead story that
Britain is busy making preparations for King
KhalecTs welcome in London next Tuesday. Al
Nadwa led with the Kingdom's draft resolution on a
settlements the Iraq- Iran conflict, while AlBUad
carried as a lead story the signing of four National
Guard housing contracts worth SR4.25 billion by
Prince Abdullah, second deputy premier and head
of the National Guard.

Newspapers frontpaged a statement by Minister
of Defense and Aviation Prince Sultan, who said
that the Kingdom’s arms factories will always be in
the service of Islam and peace. Newspapers also
gave front-page coverage to Interior Minister
Prince Naif s current visit to Morocco, where he has
already visited a number of security and agricultural
if r: : jgsadlatioas. In another prominent page one story.

newspapers reported that the Islamic Foreign
Ministers’ Conference in Baghdad has adopted that
the executive measures for a holy war to liberate
Jerusalem.

In an editorial on the National Guard housing
contracts. A/ Bilod described die project as part of
an overall strategy for the Guard's major projects
which reflect the Royalty’s deep concern for all-
round development and progress in the Kingdom.
Whatever progress has been achieve so far, it rep-
resents a true picture of unified life being lived by
the leadership and people in this country, said the
‘paper.

On the other hand, Al Jatirah commented on
Libya’s attitude at tbe Islamic Foreign Ministers’
conference in Baghdad, saying that the Libyan
slanders were nothing unexpected from a regime
being led by Muammar Qaddafi. The paper quoted
several instances of dissension which Libya's pres-
ent regime has created in more than one Arab coun-
try. It said that Libya's current attack on Saudi
Arabia has been done under a planned strategy
whose aim is to spoil the Kingdom’s reputation. The
paper urged the Foreign Minister^ Conference to
issue an official statement condemning Libya’s
tirade mi Saudi Arabia and exporing Libya’s anti-
Arab and anti- Islamic activities. It said die Libyan
regime can be described as a dangerous stooge of
the big powers which remain hostile to the interests
of Arabs and Muslims.

AI Medina also expressed disgust with the Libyan
regime and its slanders on the Kingdom. It said that

the present Libyan regime is characteristic of insan-
ity which is set to create dissension and chaos
everywhere. The paper added that the destructive
plans of die Libyan regime do not need any expla-
nation after noticing the bloodshed it created in
neighboring Chad. It reiterated that the Islamic
activity will continue unabated, no matter what the
Libyan regime does in collaboration with the
Communists and the Zionists.

Okaz exhorted the Baghdad conference to strive
to put the Islamic resolutions into real practice,
reminding it that Moscow is dominating Afghanis ,
tan and Washington is continuously supporting the
Israeli enemy only becaue the Islamic nation has
failed to adopt a unified stance on its crucial issues.
It urged Iran and Iraq to respond to the call of the
Islamic nation and to put an end to their armed
dash. The paper asked the Baghdad conference not
to issue any more resolutions but to Strive to imple-
ment the previous resolutions with a concerted and
joint action,

Meanwhile, Al Nadwa dealt ■ with the

U.S. stance on the Middle East situation and reiter-
ated that it is more dangerous than die Israeli
attitude. Justifying its conviction, the pa per said
that Washington has continuously ignored die
actual situation which encouraged the Israeli enemy
to continue to make the situation mare and more
explosive. It did not believe in Washington’s claim*
of trying to solve the crisis because all its actions have
shown a dear bias toward Israel, said the paper.

Local misgivings hit Suzuki

By Yuko Naka mikado 1950 U.S .-Japan Security Treaty.

TOKYO — In the course of the arguments, Suzuki, with little

Japanese Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki is gang experience in diplomatic affairs before taking office

to Western Europe this month amid misgivings at last July, first said the word “alliance” hadnonriht-

home about his leadership and diplomatic exp ertise ary connotations but later said it did because of (he

following a spate of incidents during the past weeks. security treaty, under which the U.S. must help to

Despite his troubles, the 70-year-old prime minis- defend Japan in case of aggression,
ter is l ikely to senx out M i term ‘oNavembernot ' Hr repeatedly complained after his return W

Wadungton .that the joint comnnmiqw he W

in handling diplomatic My reflect ^ vie^He abo corn-

affairs involving a joint commumqeemthihetfthmt £55 ? «?™mqne to issued before be

Ronald Reagan and nudearis^eacould psycholog- ^ ^ y^M^ entReajmthed^

icaHy affect his visit to Western Eurooe and the - m « easi ? 8 Ja P anese defease spend-

<Wwa summit

tiie sources said. Suzuki is scheduled to visit West vice 5S teagaatum j

Germany, Italy, Belgium, Britain and the Nether-

lands from June 10-18/ Arrangements are under agrecd to stay on.

way for an additional visit to Frmice to meet Social- Suzukfs popularity, according to a newspaper

ist President Francois Mitterrand, officials said. survey immediat ely after thelto resi gnation, Hrop-

Discussions with West European leaden are P® 4 * to 41 percent from 44.4 percent the previous
designed to pave tiie way for the Ottawa summit' “S™. . -

which could result in a loosening in die cohesion ■ 80111068 sa “* resignation saga made

among the seven participating nations. The Euro- it diffic ult for Suzuki to win bureaucrats’ support in

pean Economic Community (EEC), which had an wt administ native reforms on which he has

$11 billion trade deficit with Japan last year is he anil stake his political life. An interim

jl.. 4—tt ... i_ _ ■ 3 ’ . report cm admin ittretiva wr««. j «

.Despite his troubles, the 70-year-old prime minis-
ter is likely to serve out his term to November next
year, accoitimg to sources close to the ruling Liberal
Democratic Party (LDP).

KBs alleged ineptitude in handling diplomatic
affairs involving a joint co mmuniq ue with President
Ronald Reagan and nuclear issues could psycholog-
ically affect his visit to Western Europe and the
Ottawa summit of industrial 'democracies in July,
tiie sources said. Suzuki is scheduled to visit West
Germany, Italy, Belgium, Britain and the Nether-
lands from June 10-18.* Arrangements are under
way for an additional visit to France to meet Social-
ist President Francois Mitterrand, officials said.

Discussions with West European leaders are
designed to pave foe way for the Ottawa summit'
which could result in a loosening in die cohesion
among the seven perfecting nations. The Euro-
pean Economic Community (EEC), which had an

demanding that Japan curb its surging car exports to
the community in tiie same way it (tedded to do with
the United States. The Common Market is also
calling for Japanese export restraint in other sensi-
tive areas such as color television sets and machine
tools.

report on aitwiniptiftive reforms is expected a
July, but there have been signs of resistance to
cutting government subsidies such as for farms!
education and social welfare.

• : - *-

twe areas such as color television sets and machine The biggest of all incidents came when a for met

to °®- __ - U.S. amb a ssador to Japan. Edwin dfe-

The LDP sources said dose ties between Japan dosed that UA auctaSimed

at Japanese ports with tire verbal cravat of Japao-

to re 8 ard ****** ™*er of eseantoorithtt. He also said port calls or tram**

^ . ^v^wereexdndedfrSjWs^^

tune “ a **?? not P°*essmg, prodadnget introdSg
US.- Japan joint communique by Suzuki and Presi- muAtax weiqxfosfotofawm

Reagan last month, angered the opposition Smwki ^ „ ' Trtrn ^ f - f ! rr i r '

win* alleged Suzuki had committed Japan to for the time tone bv

mirolvement m U.S, global strategy. Suzuki said he ships had cozne^J^ CwtewS

had made no new promise to strengthen Japan’s had sought no Drihr^^^

.defense capabilities beyond the framework offfie stipulated in *e

SUNDAY, JULY 5, 1981

Agnews Features

PAGE 7

Trip to U.S. is cheap
stop for Middle East

By Ratma Siddiqi

JEDDAH, — Ifs that time of the year
again when schools dose for the long summer
break, heat and humidity start reaching their
Peak, colorful vacation brochures become
favorite reading material, and trips to the
travel agencies take top priority . The United
States seems to be a favorite haunt again this
summer for vacationers from the Middie
East. And why not if crossing the Atlantic
costs about the same as a trip to London,
Brussels or Paris if one compares some of the
fares being offered from Jeddah to the
United States.

It is mind boggling how it all works but you
can travel double the distance on certain sec-
tors with lower fares. Intense competidon has
created a state of sky war it seems, fordng
quick thinking market minds to come up with
ever attractive deals to draw customers who
now can choose from several shopping bas-
kets for their air tickets.

There is definitely more to choose from for
the USA-bound jet setter than one heading
for Europe. In general, air fares within
Europe are higher per mile than for compar-
able distances to and within the United
States. There are, however, within European
some promotional fares to dry the tears so to
speak. S AS General Manager in Jeddah. S.E.
Nordboe calls it a “jungle price" and admit-
ted that it is complicated business trying to
offer a better deal. “ When you see the US
fares on a brochure they don't seem right," he
said. “The competition has become intense:
deregulation of fares in the USA has created
this difference and frenzy.**

Yves Bouillet of Air France expressed
similar views agreeing that when the Carter
Administration encouraged the airlines in
USA to compete with each other, legally this
created this unnatural decline in fares. He
added that while the smaller airlines gained
through this deregulation of fares, the bigger

ones with a higher maintenance cost and
standard have been hurt in the process. “The
idea that seats should be filled is gripping all
airlines these days,” said Bouillet.

Fuel factor also appears to be at the heart
of the issue. SAS manager Nordboe whose
airline offers a direct route from here to the .
United States with a connection in Stockholm
induding free layover, states that the trans
Polar flights from Northern Europe to
America shorten the distance and are thus
low in fuel consumption. Hence the cheaper
fares on this route.

Yves Bouillet explained that there is less
fuel consumption on long flights compared to
the short hopes between European cities.
“Fuel consumption is extremely high," he
said, “for landing and takeoff." Thus the
cheaper air fares across the Atlantic are attri-
buted to less fuel costs and also due to lower
airport handling and navigational charges in
U.S. airports compared to Europe.

Both SAS and Air France are full members
of IATA whose regulations do not permit
these airlines and other members to reduce
their fares to a great extent. However
because of the free market now operating in
the U.S. airline industry, fare rules have sub-
stantially softened and a lot of leverage is
allowed to individual carriers in charging
fares. Nevertheless, SAS offers a number of
promotional fares from here to Scandinavia
and within Europe as well. The airline is also
offering special excursion and youth fares
and will soon introduce a student fare which,
says Nordboe," will be almost 60 percent less
for all students irrespective of age.”

Some airlines are also takig other measures
to bring down fares. According to Yves
Bouillet, some European carriers including
Air France have removed First Cass on the
European network and replaced it by Busi-
ness and Coach Cass. Besides there arc spe-
cial week end and other cheap fares within
Europe.

; favorite
travelers

Talking of Freddy Laker and Lord Bethel
who are challenging IATA and the major
airlines in court cases and demanding landing
rights in the European sector, BouOlet said,
“they may be able to charge less but just
compare the service provided by IATA
member carriers. The cost of running a regu-
lar airline is more because our goal is to serve
the public. We promise to take people at a
scheduled time whether the plane is full or
empty. Besides, Laker Airways running
expenses are less and it wants access to pro-
fitable routes only."

Some airline executives are doubtful that
U.S. airlines can make any profit with the
kind of cut fares they are now offering. SAS
Manager Nordboe feels “they should surely
be losing money. However, it is a way of
attracting higher revenue because often one
has to fly with the same company across the
Atlantic to be entitled for the nominal Visit
USA fares.”

Travel to the United States is popular not
only because of the cheaper air fares but also
because of the attractions the vast country
offers for travelers of all ages. As Nordboe
concedes “there is so much to see and such a
variety to choose from while vacationing in
North America."

On the other hand, Yves Bouillet expects
more traffic from the United States to
Europe this summer as the dollar surges
against major European currencies, will
make the Continent more attractive to
American tourists who kept away from
Europe the last couple of years when the
dollar took a beating.

There is no doubt that air travel has now
changed. Gone are the days when big airlines
had the monopoly and one chose a favorite
airline in the period of fixed fares. Today,
travelers hunt around for bargains. While
IATA and the established airlines look for
ways and means to standardize fares, cus-
tomers are having a field day till the present
fare madness is resolved.

Despite constant volcano threat

Pagan Islanders want to return home

PAGAN ISLAND, Northern Marianas
(AP) — Groves of coconut trees on this little
island are encrusted in lava, and valleys are
black from ash and fires that accompanied
the furious eruption of Mount Pagan. Fifty
three islanders who lived here are safe on
another island because they bid in caves dur-
ing the blast. They are eager to return home,
despite the risk that Mount Pagan could again
roar to life as it did May 15. The 54th rest-
dent, Mayor Danny Castro, was on the Island
Saipan, 3 1 0 kms to the south, when the erup-
tion occurred.

“I...want to come back to Pagan. It is like
paradise," said Saturaino Kaipat, who has
been staying on Saipan since he and the
others were rescued from Pagan. “If it is ok,
then I want to live on Pagan. It’s my home,”
said his uncle, 54-year-old Mariano Kaipat,
the oldest islander.

Yet no one knows when the 13 families
might be able to leave Saipan. Three scien-
tists from the Hawaii Volcanoes National

Park Observatory who went to the Island
after the eruption say MountPagan may blow
again. Harmonic tremors — subterranean
shivers that often herald an eruption — still
occur. Much of the tropical pacific island is
now unlivable.

Castro. was stunned by the island’s appear-
ance when he and 12 residents made a brief
visit recently to collect a few belongings and
surviving livestock before abandoning their
homes, perhaps forever. “I didn't think it
would be like this," he said.

MountPagan, oue of the island's two active
volcanoes,, erupted, for the first time in 56
years, blasting plumes of ash, steam and
smoke 1,500 meters high. The islandere,
including 29 children, fled their homes in the
island’s only village and hid in caves until a
Japanese freighter took them to Saipan.

They had only one small boat to cross a
small inlet to the caves, and many people
made it across the wateron theirown.“It was

Forest destruction:

like god told the children how to swim," said
Peter Castro, the mayor's brother.

The islanders and scientists said lava had
buried 10 percent of the 480 square kms
island. Ash covers the entire island, one of
the northernmost of the common wealth of
the Northern Marianas, 1,900 kms south of
Japan.

Lava flows, one nearly 30 meters long ran
down the mountain slopes, covering Pagan's
two main roads and half its airstrip, killing
animals and destroying groves of coconut
trees, the island's only source of income. Ash
has dogged water catchments.

Northern Marianas governor Carlos.
Camacho said he wants a uaismometer,
which records movement of the earth, instal-
led on (he island before allowing residents to
return. Mayor Castro, also mayor of five
other islands in the chain hopes for govern-
ment aid to rehabilitate Pagan. “Living with a
volcano is a gamble," he said. But life is. a

gamble.'

Bird’s eye view is disappointing

By Madeleine Jacobs Increasingly, there is less forest for its avian

denizens — and people — to see. The con-
WASHINGTON (SNS) — When zoologist tinuous expanse of deciduous forest that once

Jim Lynch looks at a forest, he tries to take a blanketed the entire eastern United States is
bird's-eye view. And like the birds, Lynch today tittle more than an archipelago of forest

sometimes can’t see the forest or the trees. fragments — tiny islands adrift in a sea of

FEEDING TIME: Hie Kentucky warbler feeds its anxious young. Food supply availabil-
ity in dwindling forests is one reason birds are not returning.

megalopolitan sprawl, industrial develop-
ment and croplands.

The birds, especially the millions of color-
ful tropical migrants that funnel into North'
America every spring and summer to breed,
have not been indifferent to changes in their
environment. In several wooded areas and
parklands studied over the past 30 years, sci-
entists have documented a drastic decline
and, in some cases, the virtual disappearance
of o nce-plcntiful warblers, vireos and other
songbirds.

The situation is alarming to scientists tike
Dr. James F. Lynch at die Smithsonian's
Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental
Studies, located near Annapolis, Md. And
Lynch’s scientific counterparts in Latin
America, where forests are being destroyed
at an exponential rate, are equally concerned.

“There is a general feeling that birds pro-
vide us with a kind of ‘litmus tesf of the
environment," Lynch explains. “When a
species disappears from an area, we may be
getting a signal that the entire system is under
stress.”

Scientists agree that major changes in the
abundance and distribution of scores of birds,
induding some of our most familiar species,
already have occurred in eastern North
American woodland areas. Some researchers
attribute the extinction of the Carolina para-
keet and the passenger pigeon within this
century to a reduction of their forest habitat;
a similar argument has been advanced to
explain the demise of the ivory-billed wood- .

Invisible plane’ looks curious,
millions were spent on designs

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A:

FAST JETS: These snpmoak Jet* eeaJd be a thing of the post after the develop mail of Invisible' planes. The SteaMi planes, however, have
been proven to be both slow and hard to control. _ '

By Robert C. Toth

WASHINGTON, (LAT) — The Stealth
Bomber to which theU.S. Air Force will soon
be committed promises to be a curious-
looking plane by today’s standards. One of
the two competing designs resembles the
front end of a platypus, with a flat and sloping
snoot, according to defense sources. The
other is said to look like a triangular wing.

Along with other features, the odd shape of
this .“bomber of tomorrow^’ is intended to
make the plane nearly invisible to radar and
other enemy sensing devices. But the same
odd shape will restrict its performance, at
least initially, accoridng to congressional and
industry sources, and perhaps even make the
bomber more difficult to fly. Two small test
craft using the new advanced technologies
have crashed, although reportedly not
because of their unusual Stealth features.

Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Wein-
berger is expected to announce soon his deci-
sion on producing a new manned bomber.
Secretary of the Air Force Verne Orr said
recently. That decision, once scheduled for
June 15, apparently awaited the return, of
Deputy Secretary of Defense Frank G Car-
lucd III from a Mideast' trip.

By all accounts, Weinberger has narrowed
the decision to two options: production of a
Stealth (or ATB, for Advanced Technology
bomber) on the one hand, or a mixture of
Stealth bombers and modified B-l bombers
on the other.

The airforce favors the latter approach. It
would like to introduce the B-ls into its
arsenal at the end of 1984, followed by the
ATBs by about 1990 or 1992. Two teams of
ATB contractors, Rockwell-Lockheed and
Boeing-Northrup, have reportedly told
Weinberger the that ATB oould be ready by
1988, however, which ' might tempt him to
favor an all-ATB program.

Some of the advanced technologies
involved in making the oddly shaped Stealth
bomber almost impossible to detect had their
origins in World Warn, when Germany tried
to hide submarines from British radar with
radar- absorbing paints.

Since the mid-1950s, the United States has

supported research in the field, althouggh it
did so at a low level until 1977 when major
development work was undertaken. By 1 980,
annnal funding was running 100 times grea-
ter than it had been in 1976, according to
former Secreatry of Defense Harold Brown.

The various techniques now being
developed should, in addition to helping pro-
tect the manned bombers from detection,
also be applicable to Cruise IVfisales, Inter-
continental Missile warheads and predsion-
guided weapons such as “Smart Bombs.”

Precisely how much these techniques can
do, and how soon, is disputed, however. For
example. Dr. Edward Teller, the nudear
bomb expert who also serves on various
defense science advisory boards, has said it
would be costilier to build Stealth Bombers
than to modify detection systems “to make
these ‘invisible' bombers visible again.”

The advanced technologies involved are
highly classified, which makes public debate
on whether to build Stealth bombers more
difficult than with other weapons. But some
basic underlying concepts are known.

For example, radar edioes can be reduced
by eliminating vertical surfaces, such as tails,
and sharp comers such as the intersections of
wing and fuselage. Thus, the Boeing
Platypus" design has a split V-shaped tail
instead of a vertical rudder and horizontal
elevators, and ail edges are rounded or gently
smoothed into configurations that minimize
reflection.

Another technique is to replace metal in
the aircraft skin with radar-absorbing plastic
polymers, such as fiberglass in epoxy resin
much like automobile fender repair com-
pounds.

Where metal must be used for strength, it
can be painted with radar-absorbing coat-
ings. A variation is to use a partially reflecting
paint, applied at a precise 'thickness, to" con-
fuse an enemy. The radar waves reflected
from the paint surface interfere with waves
from tiie underlying metal surface to rule out
any meaningful signal.

La addition to hiding from radar, it is hoped
that future bombers will emit the least
■amount possible of infrared (heat wave) radi-
ation and reflect tiie least a mount of ordinary

light, in order to escape detection from the
ground, from airborne devices and from
enemy satellite sensors looking down from
space.

Hot jet engines are, therefore, recessed as
much as possible into the Stealth bomber
structures and baffles w£Q be built into their
exhausts to reduce telltale heat “signatures.'*

A final technology involves electronic
countermeasures. Highly sophisticated
equipment and computers on the bombers
can jam enemy radars — much as World War
n bombers did with aluminum “chaff” — and
also create images of the bombers away from
the aircraft toward which enemy missiles
might be lured.

Balanced against such positive features of
Stealth technology are at least two draw-
backs: less maneuverability of the airplane
and less resiliency of its structural parts.

Stealth bombers, whose primary mission
will be to penetrate Soviet air defenses when
the nation's aging B-52s can no longer do it
will have to go in at higher, and thus more
vulnerable, altitudes than the 200 feet or less
of attacking B-52s or B.-Is, according to the
current issue of Air Force Magazine.

“At this time, at least it appears that the
ATBS — like their distant forerunner, the
SR-71 (Lockheed’s Superfast Spy Plane) —
lack maneuverability and hence might not
perform well in a terrain -foil owing, on-the-
deck penetration mode,” the magazine said.

Maintenance of Stealth Bombers on the
ground will also be more difficult than with
ordinary planes. The planes become far more
susceptible to radar if paint is accidentally
scraped off the craft or its smooth skin is
denied.

Similarly, Stealth Bombers will not be as
structurally flexible as today's B-52s, which
often seem to have flapping wings during
high-speed,' low-altitude 'attacks.’ Flexing
wings create radar echoes. Small planes can
be built with rigid wings but larger planes will
pose much more severe problems than simply
emlargmg the design.

The two test planes that crashed were
Lockheeed- built craft, presumbly small
reconnaissance or observation planes.

THREATENED: The white-eyed vino, left. Is guarding the nest and .at the same time keeping watch for food. Right, the red-eyed vireo feeds

WARY: More V" 1 M specks were studied by scientists trying to determine forest detfroctioii’s effect open birds. Left, tire cardinal, l

right, the Carolina chickadee. ;

its baby chicks.

pecker in the southeastern United States.

But it is not at all certain whether such
changes are due solely or primarily to the
breaking up of large forested areas into smal-
ler “fragments” or whether other, subtler fac-
tors are also playing an important role.

“The gospel Lynch says, "has been that
tropical migran t birds, which reride here in
the summer, cannot cope with fragmented
forests. Our impression has been that these
birds either avoid small isolated forests or
that they tend not to reproduce successfully
in such places.’ Thus, the prevailing philiso-
phy governing the establishment and man-
agement of reserves for birds and other wild-
life has been “the bigger, the better.”

“The trouble is," Lynch continues, “previ-
ous research has not been extensive enough
to either confirm or refute this contention.
Many scientists believe that we-might be able
to manage our forests and parklands more
intelligently if we could get a better under-
standing of exactly why a particular species of
bird will or will not inhabit an area of forest.”
Now, in a newly completed study of more
than 20 forest patches in Maryland, Lynch
and Dr. Dennis Whxgham, a Bay Center
botanist, have evidence ch al le ngin g the con-
ventional wisdom that size and isolation are
the most important factors influencing breed-
ing bird populations. Their study, which was
sponsored by the Maryland Power Plant Sit-
ing Program, is likely to pronqat a rethinking
of strategies for forest management and con-
servation.

“It turns out to bea very dynamic situation
in which a large number of factors influence
tiie tendency of birds to breed in a patch of
forest” Lynch says. “Many spedes don’t
seem to respond to size and isolation, at least
in our study area. Instead, they key into par-
ticular aspects of forest structure or the
‘ecological richness’ of a rite.”-
The study is the largest of its kind so far
conducted anywhere, involving forest frag-

ments ranging in size from 7 to nearly 2.500
acres. For two summers, researchers moni-
tored bird populations within these wooded
areas. Twenty of the most common migratory
spedes were studied, induding a variety of
familiar warblers, vireos and flycatchers, as
well as the scarlet tanager, the ruby-throated
hummingbird and the wood thrush. These
species spend the non-breeding season, more
than half the year, in Mexico and Central
America or South America. Ten additional
spedes living the entire year in Maryland or
migrating only as far south as the Gulf Coast
region inducted the blue jay, Carolina chick-
adee, Carolina wren, cardinal and various
woodpeckers.

The researchers also measured a number
of dbaracteristics of the forest induding the
height and density of the forest canopy; the
size, abundance and identities of trees, shrubs
and herbs, and the degree of isolation — the
distance separating the patch from other
wooded areas.

The study yielded reams of data, which
were then subjected to statistical analysis on a
computer. From this emerged a series of
“profiles’’ showing the key relationships
between the abundance of each bird spedes
and the characteristics of the forest patches.

Virtually every lard spedes showed a sig-
nificant correlation between abundance and
one or more forest characteristics. This was
not surprising since from other research
Lynch and Whigham knew that such factors
as therize and abundance of trees, shrubs and
ground cover influence various bird spedes.
But they had expected to find that forest size
and isolation would override these ecological
considerations. , .

“In fact,” Lynch says, “this proved to be
the case only for a minority of spedes. In
general, each spedes responded to a unique
combination of forest characteristics."

The abundance of some migratory birds,
such as the Kentucky warbler, showed almost
no sensitivity to. area and isolation, but.was

strongly senritive to the density of herbace-
ous vegetation. On the other hand, the red-
eyed vireo, the most common forest-
breeding bird in the study area, and the Aca-
dian flycatcher were far more plentiful in
non- isolated woodlots with a large number of
different plant spedes. The ovenbird was also
more abundant in non-iso la ted woodlots, but
preferred forest patches with a high density of
trees.

In contrast to the migratory birds, resident
species such as the Caro lina wren and the
Carolina chickadee actually tended to be
more abundant in smaller, more isolated for-
est patches. “Resident birds appear able to
cope better with disturbances in their
habitat," Lynch says. “For these spedes,
small woodlots may serve as "lifeboats’ in a
sea of urbanization.”

“The situation is much more complicated
than we suspected,” Lynch acknowledges.
“The results of our study indicate just how far
we have to go before we can daim to under-
stand how birds actually decide to occupy
certain forested areas'. Birds apparently see
things in a much more complete way than
sdentists.”

Additional studies on the effects of forest
fragmentation are urgently needed, he
believes, because important decisions about
conservation management are already being
made on the basis of inadequate information.

“There is an enormous gap in our present
understanding of tiie ‘cause-and-effecf of
current changes in bird abundance," he says.
“We can be misled in some instances if we
overemphasize the importance of forest area,
isolation or nay other single factor. The struc-
ture and composition of local plant com-
munities may play an important role. If so, no
simple conservation strategy is likely to be
optimal for all of the bird spedes in a given
area, since anything we do to improve the
habitat for one spedes may be detrimental to
some others.”

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FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1981

EXHIBITION: A cultural festival called ‘ ‘Egypt Today ' * has jnst cooduded its 8-wedc run in various American dries. Among other things, 50 antiquities, representing the pre-dysartic period through fee age of the Ptolemies, were exhibited in the festival, seen above are a Hon
and a lioness gamins pieces, made of ivory and date back to 2900 B.C. and at right, a gold bracelet inlaid with agate belonging to the Greco-Roman period, 100 B.C.

‘Egypt Today’ cultural festival concludes in America

By Tom Canahuate
Washington Bureau

‘WASHINGTON — A diverse and com-
prehensive symposium celebrating the con-
temporary culture of Egypt has just con-
cluded a successful eight-week run in three
American cities.

The cultural festival called Egypt
Today featured events here in the nation’s
capital and in Houston. Texas, and Los
Angeles. It was the fifth in an annual series of
international cultural seminars that the
National Endowment for the Humanities
(NEH) began in 1977.

In addition to 'Egypt Today , the NEH
had in the past sponsored festivals featuring
Canada, Mexico, Japan and Belgium through
a series of art exhibits, lectures, films and
workshops. Here in Washington more thnn
50 events were marshalled for the short, hut
extensive revelry, which began March 16
when Mrs. Jihnn Sadat, wile of Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat, inaugurated the
programs.

The varied «j*pt:rieni;i.**, offered by

Egypt Today, included a poetry reading

by the Egyptian poet Sal ah Abdel Sabbour,
whose work has been described as
“revolutionary in the development of mod-
ern Egyptian poetry,” and a lecture by
architect Hassan Fahty, who described how
he uses architecture to help alleviate Egypt’s
severe housing shortages.

• Another famous person who partidpatd in
the festival was the Egyptian actor Omar
Sharif — he spoke about Egyptian films last
month launching a six-week Elm festival
which featured a broad selection of Egyptian
films.

One of die most popular attractions in the

Egypt Today was the “ Arts of Ancient

Egypt: Treasures of Another Scale” shown at
the Smithsonian Institution Building. More
than 50 articles were loaned by the Egyptian
Mu,seun1 in Cairo and the exhibits included
stone sculptures, bronze figures, glass und
ceramic vessels and other items made from
gold, ivory, and wood. The sampler spun a
.1 ,000 year period from prc-dynastlc Egypt to
the Age of the Ptolemies reflecting the artis-
tic achievements of ancient Egypt.

Some features at the exhibit were sculp-
tures of a seated scribe from Saklcara from
the old kingdom (Dynasty V, 2490-2350
B.G), and Ukh Hotepi, a high Official during
tiie middle kingdom (Dynasty XU, 1991-
1786 B.C.), and his family. The sculptures
provided an interesting contrast because the
old kingdom piece lacked individual or fadal
detail unlike the middle kingdom work which
portrayed Ukh Hotepi and his family with
vigorous fadal expressions. This difference,
symbolizes the concern wife contemporary
reality and the growing sense of personal
identity feat marked the middle kingdom
particularly under fee reign of Sesostris HI
(1878-1843 B.C.).

Also at the exhibit were four alabaster
Canopic jars from Sakkara which were used
to preserve a mummy’s internal parts, u ser-
pentine sphinx of Hatshcpusut, and a bronze
Apis bull. From the Greco- Roman period
there were example* of Egyptian gold
jewelry which reveal the growing Greek-
Roman influence cm Egyptinn art. On dis-
play. for instance, war. a iinely crafted and
detailed twoheaded Cobra make bracelet

An aerial view of Hong Bong.

Strains in Hong Kong ties withU.K.

By Michael Parks

HONG KONG. (LAT) - TV Rritish flag
•naps in fee breeze above the Hung Kong
governor^ white stucco mansion. Queen
Elizabeth's initials arc on the red mailboxes.
Five battalions of British troops ure gar-
risoned bore.

Hong Kong' s basic laws go hade to the old
colonial regulations of tlic British empire,
and fee government is run hy people like Sir
Murray Maclehosc the governor; Sir Jack
Cater, the chief secretary; Sir Philip
Haddon-Cave, the financial secretary: and
Sir Denys Roberts, chief justice. Can there be
■many doubt that Hong Kong remains a Brit-
ish crown colony?

True, 98 percent in its 5.5 million residents
are Chinese, but were it not for the British
flag, this bustling und prosperous place would
be simply another port on the South China
coast. Hong Kong, however, is an increas-
ingly reluctant colony, and its lights with Bri-
tain have grown more frequent and more
serious.

" When lucrative new air routes from Hong
Kong and China to Britain were awarded last
year, fee Hong Kong airline, Cathay Pacific,
was initially cut out by London. Eventually,
fee loud protests Item the British business
community and colonial government won
Cathay Pacific a share of the 7o»»*e.

When the European CY-torm n M.irkjt was
setting textile quotas for imports from the Far
East, Britain actually worked to cut Hong
Kong’s sales to the Common Market — and
an estimated 18,000 jobs were lost. Britain's
bill for stationing 8,000 troops here jumped
140 percent last year to$332 million, a figure
widely criticized here as too high. Although
Hong Kong pays three-quarters of all defense
costs here, London insists that five new patrol
boats worth more than $l!>0 million and
4,000 jobs — be built in Britain, although

they will be used only in Hong Kong.

Other "buy British” requirements have-
been written into many Hong Kang laws,
construction codes, utility regulations and
development plans although Japanese or
American products might be cheaper or more
suitable. "Virtually no one else in the world
wall buy these two-decker British buses but
Hong Kong," a local newspaper complained
editorially last month, " and we would not
either — except feat we are a British colony.”

These disputes, however heated they
became, eventually were put aside: Hong
Kong's economy has growa an average of 1 1
percent a year for the last five years, and
Britain was allowed to skim some of fee pro-
fits. But fee latest strains are political in
character, and they go to the heart of Hong
Kong’s peculiar status as British-
administered Chinese territory, as Peking
sees it, or a crown colony left by binding
treaties from the days of empire, as London
views if.

Hong Kong Chinese feel feat, when Peking
resumes administeration of fee territory, as
most believe it eventually will, they will be
unable to leave. Britain, as they see it, is
backing away from longstanding political and
moral obligations to them out of fear feat it
would cither have to oppose China's reasser-
tion of sovereignty ov er Hong Kong or reset-
tle those wanting to leave.

"Whatever verbal assurances we a re given,
all fee bard evidence points to a British desire
to dump us." a Cambridge-educated political
scientist said at Hong Kong University. Said a
middle-aged British businessman, fee son of
one of fee colony's former financial sec-
retaries; " We would not be a colony if we had
any choice in fee matter. We are perfectly
capable of governing ourselves, more so than
many independent nations. Our economy is
sound, our social and political system stable.

Our need for British tutelage ended a decade
or more ago,

"But how can Britain grant us any form of
Independence when China claims every
square foot of the territory and can put a
soldier on each (square foot) to back up that
claim? Hong Kong is no more part of China
today than Belgium is part of France or
Austria is part of Germany — maybe in his-
tory, but not today. Still, independence is out
of fee question, and we remain a crown col-
ony, on anachronism for which 1 and prob-
ably every thinking Chinese thanks God each
night."

Separate 19th century treaties gave Hong
Kong island and fee tip of Kowloon peninsula
to Britain as crown colonies and added the
rest of the peninsula to British control under
a 99-year lease. The Chinese Communist
Party has always contended that fee three
treaties are invalid. Yet, since coming to
power in 1949, fee Communist regime has
depended on fee colony as a trading center.
Some here believe that Peking wants to con-
tinue British administration of Hong Kong
even after the lease expires in 1997. If fee
territories actually revert to China, fee rest of
the colony would almost certainly be envi-
able economically.

British leftists have been calling for a pull-
out from Hong Kong for some time. No one
really seems at ease wife Hong Kong’s colo-
nial status, and the uncertainty of fee future
makes it difficult to deal with this fundamen-
tal question. Britain's small Liberal Party,
however, proposed during fee current deba te
on fee Nationality Bill feat Hong Kong be
granted a form of internationally recognized
autonomy, malting its residents “Hong Kong
citizens ” rather than British subjects. Any
new law, the Liberals said, "must recognize
*c obligation we owe to people who became
British and have no other citizenship.”

from 60 B.C.

An amusing highlight to fee "Arts of
Ancient Egypt” was fee discovery feat an
ancient statue found in 1904 had been mis-
takenly identified until the beginning of the
exhibit The kneeling figure in question had
originally been labelled as a statue of Amum
Panedjem, but after on examination by Dr.
Muhammad Saleh, vice-director of fee Egyp-
tian Museum who escorted fee artifacts to fee
United States, it was discovered feat fee
kneeling figure was in fact a statue of Pharaoh
Thutmosis III (1490-1436).

As part of fee festival fee Hirshom
Museum featured fee work of the Egyptian
sculptor Mahmoud Moukhtar (1891-193.4),

On view were 15 sculptures mostly from the
20’s and early 30’s period of his career loaned
by fee Nationaj Center of Arts and Letters in
Cairo.

For those whose interests lie in textiles, the
Textile Museum has sponsored "Cairene
Rugs” , an exhibit of 17 carpets drawn mostly
Jorm fee museum’s own collection. All 17
rugs are from either fee Mamluk or Ottomen
eras and fee carpets vividly demonstrate the
transition of styles between Mamluk and
Ottomen weavers. Mamluk rugs emphasize
fee geometric patterns wife red, green, and
blue as the pre-dominant colors unlike
Ottomen carpets which have broad floral pat-
terns featuring roses and tulips set in deep

earth colors such as brown, tan, yellow,
green, and blue. ...

Perhaps the most intriguing sample at the
exhibit was the Synagogue rug dating from
17to century Cairo. The carpet was adl wool
and had white, red, green, and yellow flowers
along fee edges forming a border which
incased four green and white striped columns
supporting a deep red dome wife yellow-tan
lanterns hanging from the dome.

Funding for Egypt Today came from

fee National Endowment for the Humanities
(NEHj. the National Endowment for the
Arts (NEA). and fee U.S. International
Communications Agency. Additional sup-
port was provided by the Egyptian govern-
ment ,

Mo-er can retard formation of blood clots

By a Science Correspondent

LONDON — A tasty black tree fungus,
called mo-er, used in many Chinese dishes, is
mild but effective in retarding fee formation
of blood clots.

Biochemists at Goorgc Washington Uni-
versity in Washington, D.C., believe the sub-
stance in fee fungus feat is responsible for its
an defatting properties is adenosine. The
Chinese have long extolled (he health
benefits of mo-er and, in fact, use it to treat
heart disease patients.

Dr. Dale E. Hmnmerschmidt, a researcher
at the University of Minnesota in Min-
neapolis, who has worked extensively on
mo-er investigation, says feat the long cul-
tural and gastronomic experience of fee
Chinese •ugger.t that mo-er is a useful and
nnrur.it u nil- clmting agent.

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TODAY, JUNE S, 1981

W acing huee deficit

Global airlines agree
on 5% fare increase

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PAGE 11

GENEVA, Jure 4 ( AP) ~ The world's
leading forints, except the American car-
. rere, bare agreed to recommend to govern-
tpcc tt an ftctotS’tbo^KMud, gHwiw«m five-
percent iaaeoem cugo and passenger fares
to keep Aeir.fipetaimg deficits from increas-
ing further, . .

Ike 56 airiincs oiga ni z c d in the Interna-
tional Air Transport Association (IATA)
proposed the lakes to eater into effect on
Sept. I for passenger fares and cm Ocl 1 for
cargo rates.

Adam Thomson, chief of the British

Caledonian Airlines, who chaired the disens-
siwis, told .a news conference the proposed
nreres se would bring die IATA carriers an
eati fli a t cd additional incom e of $500
*Ws year, just enough to keep their expected
combined shortfall at last year's level of $2.1
fatllsan.

He said without die increase die airlines

Mexico cuts
oil price

MEXICO CITY, June 4 (R) — The Mex-
ican state oil monopoly, Pernex, has cat the
price of most of its crude ofl exports by $4 a
barrel.

An official bulletin Wednesday said the
oit went into effect Monday and would last
uma July 1, the date of its next quarterly
pricing review. The price of light-heavy
crude mix was reduced from $34.60 a barrel
to $30.60. The price of “Isthmus" fight
remained at $38 JO.

Mexico is not a member of the. Organiza-
tion of Petroleum Exporting Countries
(OPEC) which announced a price freeze
last month, but it flows market trends in its
pricing policy.

Nissan to recall
defective trucks

TOKYO, June 4 (AFP) — Mssan Motor
Japan's second largest auto manufac-
turer, las notified tire transport ministry
here that it would recall small-size trucks of
the “ J-PGY72(T model to repair defective
pasts.

A defective lubricating device for die
front axle has been found in trucks pro-
duced between March 1980 and last month,
Nissan officials said Wednesday.

Of a total cf 54,653 trucks produced dur-
ing this period, 49,829 were sold abroad,
mainly in the United States, Canada and
Australia, they said.

The said that their company

would repair the trucks said in Japan within
three months from Ih^rsday, while the
repair of those sold abroad would begin as
soreasniewlnbricaring(K9S6^aresh$i%ar '

would face 1981 as “the wont year ever”
with an estimated combined deficit of $2.6
billion from an operating loss of $ 1.7 billion
and interest payments of ifoout $900 mfllidiL

The airline executives also tailed on gov-
ernments to bait the escalation of airport
landing fees and air navigation cha rge and
rationalize air traffic control systems to help
save fuel and money.

^ Finally, they decided to set up a special
“fare deal monitoring group” in which 8-10
airlines would be represented, to control dis-
counting practices which Thomson said were
causing the carriers heavy business losses.

Ex chided from 'the recommended five-
percent hike were passenger fanes on. all
flights within and from South America, from
central America to South America, from tire
United States to Venezuela, and between
Mexico and other points in North and South
America.

Thomson said the other airlines agreed on
the exceptions as a result of the difficulties

CailSCd tP the T-atm mnirn hyAfe

regions’ currency situation. He said he
expected British airlines to askfor lOpettent
hike of fares on transatlantic routes. Thom-
son explained the increases approved in>foe
U.S. were higher than those now proposed by
die other airlines in IATA A giMirm

fares had been tower to start with.

U-S. carriers are not covered by IATA
tariffs and cut-price flights between Europe
and tiie United States will not be immediately
affected. But offidiab said at a news confer-,
ence that Pan American and Trans World
Airlines were seeking increases 1 of 10.5 and
12.5 percent on the north Atlantic route, “-
rate increases considerably above what we
agreed today” 1!

IATA set up a special comtmllbe to report
back in September on ways of curbing what a
spokesman called “dark alley andfeackstaire”
cfaeqi fare operations. He said L^TA was not
against low fares, which were an essential
part of the airline business, b unwanted to
bring the operating of them to me open.

The intention is to bring It all aljrive board
and to operate pubfidy and effideotiy in the
interests of the public as well as till aafines,”
the IATA spokesman said. The meeting was
called to discuss a mounting crisis facing
world airlines, which IATA official said
expected a shortfall of some $2.6$biDion in
1981. l~ '

The new rates were intended tojhold until
March next year and would be renewed at
lATA's autumn conference, officiate said. In
another move against rising costs *pd plung-
ing profits, IATA Airlines appealed to gov-
ernments to reduce airport and other
charges. Thomson said m this category Lon-
don's Heathrow came- in for “some very
■ MUttOng words” at tile meeting for its high
j charges, wh icfag)epresca tc d$3J£orcycry pa»- -
senger arriving on a 747 Jumbo-jet.

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Economic cooperation

Russia, Poland sign accord

MOSCOW, Juno 4 (AP) — The Soviet
Union and Poland signed new “basic
guidelines” Wednesday to develop economic
cooperation between the two countries dur-
ing this decade, the Soviet news agency Tass
reported.

The agency Wednesday, did not say what
tiie guidelines werc^iut it said the agreement
provided for cooperation until 1990 in
energy, agriculture, textile and food indus-.
tries, oil r efining and petrochemicals.

Tass said representatives of tiie two coun-
tries approved the guidelines during a meet-
ing in Moscow of the Soviet-Polish commis-
sion an economy and scientific and technical

•cooperation.' The Soviet report said: “The
work of the co mmissi on was held in a
business-like and friendly atmosphere.”

Polish sources said it was the regularly
scheduled annual meeting of tiie commission,
the Soviet delegation was reportedly headed
by Nikolai V. TaJyzm, a deputy chairman of
tiie Soviet council of ministers. The Polish
delegation was headed by Polish Deputy
Premier Mieczyslaw JagLelski.

During his stay in tiie . Soviet capital,
Jagielski also held talks with Nikolai S.
Patolicbev, tiie Soviet for^gn trade minister,.
Polish sources said. Jagielskfs visit to Mos-
cow came at a time of new tensions over
developments In Poland.

EEC assures help to Thailand

BRUSSELS, June 4 (AP) — European
Common Market officials have reassured the
Thailand government they wffl give their ful-
lest possible financial and technical support
to help Thailand adjust to its manioc export
restrictions.

Thailand l ast y ear agreed to limit its
exports of mmnoc ib toe European commun-
ity to five zmfiion tons this year and next year
and cat them still further in tiie following
years.

Without waiting for tiie agreement to be
signed — it has only been ratified so far —
Thai la n d limited its export- 1 In o omp e m a t ion,
Thailand asked the Common Market for aid

in diversifying its agriculture and economy. It
£iso warns to avoid being replaced by other
-(countries^ namely Indonesia, cm the Euro-
pean market.

The Common Market, which so for has
given limited aid, has not yet solved the prob-
lem of other manioc supplies, Thailand has
asVed the European Community to raise its
tariffs mani oc imports from other countries.

Under foe gen eral agreement on tariffs and

trade rules., the community would have to
offer compensations to Thailand from com-
petitors. The commission instead is trying to
agree with Indonesia on catting its exports
too.

Japanese firm seeks damages

TOKYO, June 4 (AP) — Kawasaki Heavy
Industries Ltd., Japan's major machinery
maker, has opened negotiations with Iraq
about compensation for damage to cement
plants whose construction was interrupted
when the Iran-fraq war broke out in Sep-
tember, a company official said Thursday.

Negotiations' with the Iraqi government
began in last October, and a top-ranking
Kawasaki official visited Iraq forfrxrther talks
in May, tiie official said.

He did not mention the amount sought by

'• PARIS, (AFP) — A small airbus, the
A-320, is now commercially available to
hi rti nes, Airbus-Industries said Thursday.
This plane takes up to 150 people and
deliveries should begin late 1985 or eariy
1986.

WARSAW, (AFP) — Legislation is
bring prepared allowing Polish state enter-
prises to pursue an “independent economic
activity’, press reports said bere.The details
of tins activity wifi be decided by personnel
boards. Self-management boards will rule
on major problems encountered by the
enterprise.

BELGRADE, (AFP) — The cost of liv-
ing in d ex in Yugoslavia rose 4.1 percent in
May, tiie highest jump in 17 ; years,' press
reports said here Thursday. The figure for
tiie first five months of tiie year was 21

Jri Heavy the Japanese firm. The Matmchi Skanbun, a

lachinery national Japanese daily, said the damage has.

with Iraq. reached the equivalent of $228 million,
o cement Kawasaki received a 90-billion-yen ($402
tempted million) order from tiie Iraqi government to
it in Sep- construct two cement facilities in 1977, each
mrsday. with a capacity of one million tons a year.

Construction was halted at Altamin and
> ranking 200 kilometers (124 miles) westofBagh-

1 b dad when the border war erupted, work was

resumed aCHitin May by changing shipment
routes to Basra near the Arabian Gulf, the
ought by company official said.

BRIEFS

bus the percent, or three-quarters of tiie rise fore-

jabfg ta cast for the whole of 1981. Increases in food

Intraday prices were mainly to blame for tiie big
pie and increase in May.

or eariy JAKARTA, (AFP) — An Indian citizen

has been detained for trying to smuggle 18
. kilograms (33 pounds) of diamonds into
Indonesia from Singapore, customs officials
. have said. The Indian, whose name was not

disdosed, tricd to smuggle in the diamonds
ic details Wednesday night when he arrived from •
Singapore, they said.

bv Ac STOCKHOLM, (AFP) — Swedish
Dy police have seized 3,000 bogus American

Express credit cards which were so well
stofliy- faked that shopkeepers accepted them,

Trent in well-inf ormed sources here have said. They

xsC press found the cards at the home of a 29-year-

guxefor old Swede, who was subsequently arrested,
was 21 the sources said.

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Pound crashes against dollar

By J8. Hammond

JEDDAH, June 4 — The dollar con-
tinued its rise against all major currencies.
Whilst dosing steady in New York Wed-
nesday right, the dollar broke through new
barriers on the European markets Thurs-
day. The worst dramatic collapse against
the dollar was that of the pound sterling
which reached 1.94 levels — a loss of 12
cents in less than one week. The German
made, similarly , fell below the 2.40 level at
one stage. Locally, riyal deposit interest
rates readied 19 percent in the one month,
baric again to the level of a month ago.
Kingdom-based dealers reported very
strong demand for the dollar, both locally
and from Bahrain-based offshore banking
units. Strong commercial demand was also
reported. •■•...

Thursday was yet another remarkable
day for tire dollar an tire European
exchange markets. European dealers had
been nervously awaiting some fallback on
the New York exchanges or for some sign
that tiie Federal Reserve Board will ease hs
present polity of fairly high 19% percent
“F«ed Funds” rate. When neither of these
things materialised, the dollar rocketed on -
European exchanges Thursday, opening
against virtually an other currencies in one
ri the worst hectic trading days reported
from Europe this year.

The pound sterling fell to 1.9425 after
dosing in New York Wednesday right at
18906. The pound’s fall takes it back to
levels ri early 1979. Some dealers were at a
loss to describe tiie dramatic fall in the
pound’s value, but financial analysts seem
to agree that the single most Important
reason could be that Britain might be forced
to cut the juice ri its North Sea ofl in line
with the other oil-producing states that are
suffering from the present world glut. Mex-

ico has just announced a $4 cut in its price of
oil and the financial markets feel that Bri-
tain will be under pressure to follow suit

In other currency news, the German
mark reached 2.4005 by early afternoon
trading in Frankfurt compared to a New
York dosing level of 23775. There is tre-
mendous pressure on the German govern-
ment now to raise German interest rates or
even impose some sort of temporary capital
controls on the mark along the lines of foe
French government. Such measures, how-
ever, do not seem to help out for the French
franc went past tiie 580 level Thursday to
be quoted at 5.64 levels compared to
5.6050 in New York. The Swiss francs sairi-
lariy lost more than 300 points against the
dollar to stand at 2.1195 by mid-day. The
yen which had bear stable at 243 levels for
the past few days fell to 225.95/226 levels
Thursday. AS together, the dollar seems to
be riding on foe crest ri what one analyst
called “political stability” premium com-
pared to Other countries.

Locally, the gap between riyal and dollar
interest rates narrowed to about- Vs to V*
percent. One-month riyal JIB OR rate is
now quoted at 18 V* — 18% .percent and at
one stage rose above 19 percent levels. The
corresponding dollar interest rate level is 18
11/16 — 18 13/16 percent. Long-term riyal
deposit rates also rose, but not as sharply, to
be .quoted at 16 — 16% percent by Thurs-
day afternoon. Most dcalmgswere reported
in the short dates and riyal deposit rates for
one week touched 23 percent. On the local
exchanges, spot riyal against foe dollar
reached levels of 389 20 — 60 at me stage
in quite active dealings. Local bankers
reported strong demand for foe dollar from,
both Bahrain as well -gs local commerical
purchases, as importers took advantage ri
the Saudi Arabian Monetary. Authority
(SAMA) fixed rate policy to purchase dol-
lars. ’ _

Japan’s trade curbs onRussiato stay

TOKYO, June 4 (AFP) — Japan’s gov-
ernment win pursue its trade sanctions
against the Soviet Union, taken after Mos-
cow’s intervention in Afghanistan in
December 1979, Prime Minister Zenko
Stizulti said Thursday.

Suzuki, replying to a question about a
rumored loosening ri foe measures at a news
Conference Thursday, said: “I have not made
such a policy change. Basically, we will main-
tain our policy of sanctions.”

Suzuki, who met foe media to discuss his
six-nation European tour that begin next
week, said he did not Intend to negotiate any
reductions in Japanese automobile sales to
those nations. That problem should be'
addressed tr* both the Japanese automobile
industry ancrifs European counterparts, he
said, adding that intervention would not be
appropriate by a government favoring free
enterprise.

Suzuki said European countries should
increase their exports to Japan to reduce their
trade deficits, rather than resort to protec-
tionist measures. The Europeans could do
this by examining the Japanese market,
which is not as dosed as is generally believed,
he said. Suzuki is to visit Belgium, Britain,
France, Italy, foe Netherlands and West
Germany. .

Earlier, sources dose to the government
reported that Suzuki will tell West European
government leaders that Japan has dedded to
ease economic sanctions against foe Soviet
Union when he begins a European tour early
next week.

The prime minister will also say that Japan
is ready to provide new credits to foe Soviet
Union to help it import factory equipment
from Japan, foe sources said.

They said that this marks a formal reversal
of Japan's diplomatic policy toward foe
Soviet Union. Japan imposed eeemonnesano-

London Commodities

Closing Prices

tions in. January last year in collaboration
with the United States f oDowing Soviet inter-
vention in Afghanistan.

Japan also suspended extension ri new
credits to the Soviet Union, .embargoed
exports of high technology and strategic
goods, restricawJ exchanges of personnel, and
boycotted last summer’s Olympic Games in
Moscow.

London stock market

LONDON, June 4 (R) — The U.K. gov-
ernment bonds feB as much as two points with
the weakness of sterling do minating market
sentiment, but equities were buoyed by
increased export possibilities, dealers said.
At 1500 hours, the forward trading index was
up 8.2 at 554.9.

• Gains among equity leaders ranged to Up
with Beecham ending at net 6p higher at 2Q5
after higher annual gamings while BP w&s
also 6p up at 376 at the dose having touched
380p after first quarter results. Gold shafts
weakened With tiie bullion price. Randfoft-
tein was down $3 at 53-Vi, while North
American issues dosed quality mixe d.

Unilever ended Up higher at 571p, while
gains of 8p or 9p were noted in IC3, Hawker,
Bat Industries, Bowater, GEC and Glaxo. In
firm banks, standard chartered was op 2Qp at
629.

Insurances followed foe general trend with
Eagle Star touching a high of 293 after
announcing detailed reasons for rejection ri
foe share offer from Uwlianz Versa cheningap

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October
Coffee July
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Cocoa July
September
December

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857.00

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6275.00

6412.50

349.00

357.75

407.00
41585

639.00
65830
3137-50

3192.50

209.00
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878 JO
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866.00
901.00

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520 JO

535.50

852.25
877 JO

6177 JO

629380
340 JO

358.75
40380

412.50
627 JO

647.25
3052.50
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215J0

216.75

911.00
918J0
840 JO
864 JO

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14330

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129.00

133.00

127.70

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—

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437

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—

9200

92.45

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61-00

60.50

6030

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—

6240

58.7Q

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3835

Iranian Riyal (100)

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Ministership issue put off

French left parties

reach poll accord

PARIS, June 4 (AP) — The Socialist and
Communist ^parties, trying to put forward a
united front for the coming legislative elec-
tions, readied a limited agreement Thursday
on mutual support but sidestepped the issue
of Communist participation in President
Francois Mitterrand’s cabip'et.

After a second round <of intensive negotia-
tions, the two major leftist parties agreed that
after thejune 14 first round of die parliamen-
tary elections both parties would throw their
support behind the best-placed leftist candi-
date in the second round June 21.

Mitterrand dissolved the 491-seat
National Assembly the day after his installa-

Emergency
imposed in
Sri Lanka

COLOMBO, June 4 (AFP) — The Sri
Lankan government Thursday imposed a
state of emergency effective from 1130 GMT
to prevent a recurrence of electoral violence,
it was officially announced. The emergency
comes into force just one hour after polling
doses for the elections of district develop-
ment councils.

Implementation of the Public Security Act
throughout the country effectively extends*
the state of emergency which has been opera-
tion in Jaffna district in the north for the past
two days.

The state of emergency was clamped in
Jaffna .Tuesday following acts of violence in
several places. Buildings were burned down,
vehides were set on fire and extensive looting
took place.

Among the buildings set ablaze was the
residence of the member of parliament for
Jaffna, himself a member of the minority
Tamil community, as well as the offices of the
Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) and
of a local newspaper. Opposition leader A.
Amirthalingam, who is also TULF leader —
the largest opposition group in parliament —
was taken into protective custody Thursday
morning by security forces in Jaffna.

A government statement said he was later
released on the instructions of President J.R.
Jayewardene. Since then Amirthalingam,
who is in Jaffna, has been in telephone com-
munication with the president in Colombo.

The president stressed that the opposition
leader should be tree to “participate full/' in
the district council elections, the statement
said. The TULF wants a separate state in the
northern and eastern provinces for the 11
percent Tamil minority in Sri Lanka.

The Jaffna violence came in the wake of

tkm last month and called new elections in
hopes of winning the leftist majority he needs
in order to push through his Socialist prog-
ram.

Under the French system candidates who
receive an absolute majority in the first round
are elected. Bur because of die large number
of ' candidates, there is no dear winner in
many constituencies. _ . In those cases, all can-
didates with more than 12.5 percent a of the
vote meet again in a runoff with ,the largest
vote-getter elected.

The conservative Gaullists and the Union
for French Democracy, which dominated the
previous parliament, have agreed on a single
candidate in 350 districts and have concluded
a similar accord to bade the best-placed con-
servative in the other races.

The Socialists and rnmmiini^ had been
trying to put together a complete deal on
election strategy and a joint program to be
followed after die new parliament is elected.
But members of both delegations said after
die day’s session that there was disagreement
over “a certain number of question^' which
necessitated further discussion. Those discus-
sions, however, were put off until after the
election.

The latest polls predict that Mitterrand will
get the leftist majority be is seeking in the
new parliament. For the Communists, it is
even more important that they recoup the
heavy losses they suffered in the first round of
the presidential election in April.

Communist Party leader Georges Mar-
chais finished fourth among 10 candidates for

the presidency, winning only 153 percent of

ist showing it

the vote in the worst Communist showing in
any election in more than four decades.

That poor showing has put the Socialists in
a stronger jrositiqn to resist Communist
demands, inducting long-standing demands
for Communist ministers in the post-election
Mitterrand government Marchais_is hoping
to at Jeast equal die 86 seats the Communists
now hold to maintain sufficient clout to deal
with Mitterrand.

The Socialists, who have refused to commit
themselves on the issue of Communist minis-
ters in order not to scare off centrist voters,
prefer to wait until after die elections to do
their final bargaining.

American navy
to build missiles

shooting last Friday by unidentified gunmen
in which one police officer was killed and

three others wounded. The police officer was
on security duty at an election meeting of the
TULF in Jaffna.

The ruling United National Party (UNP)
dominated by the majority council elections
in the northern and eastern province. The
elections went ahead in Jaffna Thursday
despite the emergency in force there.

WASHINGTON, June 4 (AFP) — The
U.S. government has authorized die Ameri-
can navy to build long-range cruise missiles.
The Washington Star newspaper said Thurs-
day. Quoting senior navy officials, it said the
first of these missiles may be loaded onto
submarines and surface ships from next year
onward.

The missiles would have a range exceeding
the 600 kms laid down for land«and sea-
based missiles under an appendix to the
“SALT IT treaty of 1979 between the
United States and the Soviet Union.

The American Senate has yet to ratify this
treaty. President Reagan has said the United
States will adhere to its terms if the USSR
does. The appendix on the missile range
expires next Dec 3 1 , or four years before the
treaty itself.

Pope spends restful day at Vatican

VATICAN CITY, June 4 (Agencies) —
Pope John Paul II Thursday spent a restful
day at t his private Vatican apartment where
he returned from a Rome hospital Wednes-
day, three weeks after the attempt on his life,
the Vatican said.

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Agos-
txno Casaroli and Cardinal Frantisek
Tomasek, the S 1-year-old archbishop of
Prague, visited the Pope.

Vatij^n officials had said the Pope may be
able to resume official duties soon, perhaps
starting with Sunday appearances at his
apartment window. But they said he is not
likely to take up a full work schedule before
he recovers from a second operation.

The Pope needs that operation to reverse
the colostomy, or intestinal bypass, doctors
gave him after be was shot May 13. Mehmet
Ali Agca, a 23-year-old convicted Turkish
terrorist, has been charged with shooting the
Pope. No date has been set for Agca's trial.

Meanwhile, in West Berlin, a Turk daim-
ing to be a former friend and political associ-
ate of the man charged with shooting the
Pope said Wednesday he believed die atttack
was organized by Turkey's extreme right-
wing Nationalist Movement Party (NMP).

In an interview with the left-wing West
Berlin daily Die Tagepeitung, Ali Yurtaslan
said he had been a senior official in the party
and a personal friend of Mehmet Ali Agca.
Yurtaslan Svaagca was a member of the party
at least until last summer when he himself
fled to Western Europe fearing he would be
killed as a result of on intra-party feud.

He said he believed the attempted killing
had been organized by the NMP asa warning
to the Turkish military government not to
impose the death penalty on 220 of its mem-
bers, including former Deputy Prime Minis-
ter Alpaslan Turkes, at present on trial in
Ankara.

The aim was to show the government the

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(Wtrcpfaxo)

- WELCOME : Pope John Paul on his arri-
val at die Vatican Wednesday, after being
released from hospital, pats the cheek of a
small girl who presented him with a bouquet.

party was not beaten and that if the NMP
leaders, who are charged with armed uprising
against state and seeking to overthrow the
constitutional order, were put to death the
Turkish leadership would “face the same fate
as the Pope “

Yurtaslan said he expected the shooting of
die Pope would be only the first of a series of
guerrilla acts aimed at preventing the execu-
tion of the NMP leaders.

SPRINGTIME : It’s springtime is Grinddwald, the picturesque village on foot of Mount Eiger in the Alps. A field of flowers
and blooing trees enhance the village’s loveliness.

Charges against mediators denied

Sadr advised prudence in power war

BEIRUT, June 4 (AP) — President
A bo lh ass an Bani-Sadr of Iran has been coun-
seled to exercise “patience and prudence" in
his power struggle with clergy- oriented
hard-line supporters of Prime Minister
Muhammad Ali Rajai, Iran’s official Pars
news agency reported Thursday.

It said the advice was passed to die presi-
dent by Ajatoleslam Sbahabeddin Esbraqi,
who is Bani-Sadx's representative on the
three-man panel that mediates the disputes
between the moderate. Western- educated
president and fanatic foes in the powerful
Islamic Republican Party.

Eshraqi, who also is the son-in-law of
Iran’s leader Ayatollah Khomeini, was ans-
wering a letter from Bani-Sadr in which the
president complained Tuesday about
“unconstitutional acts" by Rajai. Chief Jus-
tice Ayatkipnab Muhammad Bebeshti and
parliament, according to Pars. Beheshti
heads the 1RP, which controls a majority in
parliament.

Eshraqi rejected Bani-Sadr* s charge that
the three-man arbitration commission has
turned into a “tool for censuring the presi-
dent" and assured the president in a letter it
was talting no sides in the struggle. Pars said.

Bani-Sadr was referring in his complaint to
a verdict the commission made public earlier
in the week that the president “acted at var-
iance with the constitution" in blocking the
appointment of several Rajai-proposed
cabinet ministers.

The commission also censured Bani-Sadr
for violating Khomeini's ban on provocative
statements in domestic politics as long as the

Abdus Sattar
promises poll

President AboDiassan Bani-Sadr
war with Iraq lasts. “Esbraqi urged the presi-
dent to exercise patience and prudence in
tackling the sensitive problems in tbe gov-
ernment," Pars reported.

Eshraqi also wrote to the president that the
commission had “at times been too lenient
and lax in dealing with provocative articles
the president wrote in his newspaper
(Engheiab Eslami ) and other newspapers,”
according to Pars.

Bani-Sadr has been outspokenly critical of
his IRP. foes in a daily column he writes in the

newspaper charging they plotted to under-
mine his presidential authorities at a time he
was handling the war effort against Iraq.

Rajai and Beheshti have been critical of
Bani-Sadr’ s conduct of the war, now in its
ninth month, and of his veto of RajaTs
nominees to fill vacant government port-
folios, especially the foreign ministry.

Khomeini, who has frequently stepped in
on Bani-Sadr 7 s side to keep the power strag-
gle under control, ordered the formation of
the commission early this year. It is made up
of a representative of Khomeini, Bani-Sadr
and the IRP.

On the war front, Iraqi forces have forced
bade “concentrations of Iranian troops" fol-
lowing a fierce 24- hour battle in the region qf
Nowsud, on the northern front in Iran's Kur- ■
distan province, the Iraqi News Agency said
Wednesday.

Quoting a military communique, IN A said
that some 280 Iranians were killed in the
fighting, which involved air and ground
forces. It added that all Iraqi planes returned
safely to base after reaching their targets.

Otiter military operations involved forces
around Sar-e-Pol-e-Zahab, Guilan Gharb,
Mehran, Dezful, Suze, Khaffagieh and in the
south near Ahwaz and Abadan, the agency
said.

Cheysson due in U.S.

PARIS, June 4 (AFP) — French Foreign
Minister Claude Cheysson Thursday left here
for a three- day official visit to Washington
where be will have talks with President
Ronald Reagan. Earlier this week, Cheysson
had talks in Bonn with West German Chan-
cellor Helmut Schmidt and Foreign Minister
Hans-Dietrich Genscher.

DACCA, June 4 ( AP) — Acting President
Abdus Sattar, bis voice quivering with emo-
tion, vowed Thursday to preserve democracy
and bold elections in six months to choose a
successor to assassinated President Ziaur
Rahman.

“I want to declare here with firmness that
tiie nation is determined to preserve inde-
pendence and sovereignty and foil any con-
spiracy to disturb the democratic process,"
Sattar said. He said presidential elections
would be held within 180 days. His spokes-
man said that because of the monsoon rains,
the polling probably would tak place between
mid-September and the end of November.

Satt3r, who is suffering from high blood
pressure and diabetes, said he would not run
in the election. With tears in his eyes and his
voice shaking with emotion, Sattar told
reporters: “Zia was like my son. I loved him
too much. I loved him because he was trying
to build a small country in a better way."
Sattar reaffirmed that there would be no
change in Bangladesh’s foreign policy and
that Bangladesh would honor all its commit-
ments and international agreements.

Ziaur was killed in the port dty of Chit-
tagong Saturday by rebel army officers in an
abortive coup led by Maj. Gen. Manzur. A
government spokesman said a military court
martial would begin proceedings this week
against alleged conspirators, at least 17 of
whom have been arrested.

Daoud Majlis Khan, a counsellor to the
president, said die court martial, to be held in
this capital dty, would begin Friday or Satur-
day and last six to eight weeks. Manzur and
two aides were lulled by angry village defense
militia after their coup attempt fizzled,
according to the offidal government account’

R eport delay angers union

Strike threatened in Poland

d n_T r * ...... . _

BYDGOSZCZ, Poland, June 4 (AP) —
The independent union Solidarity, angered
that a government report on the beating of
unionists here three months ago has not been
completed, Thursday threatened regional
strikes unless the matter is resolved by Wed-
nesday.

Local unionists said a two-hour war ning
strike will be held any day and a general strike
June 15 if there was no satisfactory govern-
ment response. If carried out, the warning
strike would come just one day after expira-
tion of parliament's April 10 call for 60 days
without strikes on the restive labor front.

The new strike threat in this northwest city
came as tensions were mounting in thesouth-
em province of Katowice, where a hard-line
Communist Party group has been condemn-
ing independent unionists and what it sees as
a weak party leadership. The Soviet media,
which has given prominence to tbe Katowice
group, Thursday said a Solidarity member in
the province had “brazenly demanded”
removal of some monuments to Soviets and
threatened violence against Communists.

Members of Solidarity’s 40-member
national commission, which union sources
here said must approve or reject the Byd-
goszcz strike plans, were meeting Thursday
with local chapter leaders. Observers at the
meeting said sentiment was against sanction-
ing the strike plans. Suffragean bishop Jan
MichaJski of Gniezno appealed to the union-
ists not to let the problem be put "on the
blade of a knife." H

“The government could exploit it as your
weakness," said Michalski. “Remember that
the governments change but the nation
remains and we are responsible for the fate of

the nation, for the survival of tbe nation.’
He said current tensions in Poland did not
favor new strikes, which he said could be
exploited by “certain forces” to “put an end
to die renewal," as Poles call the social evolu-
tion since last summer’s strike.

Solidarity's national leader. Lech Walesa,
was in Geneva for an International Labor
Organization meeting.

A prosecutor said the three unionists
beaten here March 19 could not identify their
assailants, making it hard to fix blame. He
said the case was not yet dosed. The beatings
of Jan Rulewski, leader of the Bydgoszcz
chapter and member of Solidarity’s national
presidium, and two other Solidarity members
prompted a regional wanting strike the next
day and a nationwide, four-hour wanting
strike March 27.

Warsaw radio reported the so-called
Katowice Froum issued a new document
supporting some of the changes known in
Poland as “renewal.” a broadcast Wednes-
day said the document "states at the begin-
ning that it supports die consistent renewalof
socio-political life in our country, the road to
which was paved by the working dass man-
ifestations of the summer of 1980.”

The summer labor strikes and demons tra-
.tions resulted in the formation of Solidarity
the Soviet bloc's fust legal, independent
labor union. But the document also called for
doser ties with the Soviets and condemned
“the manipulation of the justified protests of
the working dass by dedared opponents of
socialism,” the radio said.

The group also said the party leadership
was ineffective in rooting out reformers
within party ranks.

pressures
Forlani
on cabinet

Last respects
paid to Soong

Filipino police
end bank siege

ll A itvt aw . - _ ..O

_ MANILA, June 4 (AP) — Police and sol-
diers stormed a bank in a crowded shopping
center in suburban Quezon dty Thursday and
ended a more than four-hour siege by rob-
bers holding about 20 hostages.

Two robbers were killed — one of them
apparently by a grenade he set off during the
final assault — and another robber and sev-
eral hostages were wounded, police said.

The police and soldiers broke through the
bank door, fired guns, tossed tear gas and
sprayed water into the building. The assault
took place before hundreds of spectators and
was broadcast on national television.

Party group

ROME, June 4 (AFP) — As Prime
Minister-designate Amaldo Forlani clung to
hopes of a “rapid solution’’ on the tenth day
of Italy’s latest government crisis Thursday,
another Christian Democrat leader dissolved
his 20-year-old grouping within the party in
an attempt to force a special party summit.

Carlo Donat- Cattin dissolved his influen-
tial “Froze Nouve" (new force) to back up his
insistence that the premier retain authority
over cabinet appointments and not agree to
sharing out ministries according to party
strengths within his coalition.

His move came as Forlani refused to give
up hope of resurrecting the outgoing coali-
tion which aligned Socialists, Republicans
and Social Democrats with the Christian
Democrats, Italy’s largest single party.

But the Socialists have made it quite dear
their price for supporting the government —
and the Christian Democrats cannot obtain a
majority without die Socialists — is die
interior ministry, and probably foreign affairs
as well.

Socialist Party leader Bettino Craxi gave
Forlani a six-point list for discussion Wed-
nesday but it was generally felt that, at best,
this would make talks drag on a few more
days. The points centered on the P-2 masonic
lodge scandal that scuttled Forlani's previous
government last week, and widely criticized
government action after earthquake last
November that ravaged southern Italy.

Meanwhile, the Socialists bad not given up
die idea of a Socialist prime minister, though
Craxi admitted this week “this was not the
right time" to press this idea. And despite the
reluctance of President Sandro Pertim, For-
lani and even Craxi, the prospect also still
loomed Thursday of early general elections.

PEKING, June 4 (R) — Chinese leaders
Thursday paid dieir last respects to the ashes
of Soong Chingling, widow of revolutionary
leader Sun Yat$en,as the remains were taken
by a special plane to Shanghai for burial. The
New dina News Agency named Communist
Party Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping as the
bead of a 20- member processions at Peking
airport and said an honor guard of the Peo-
ple's Liberation Army escorted the turn to
the plane.

The procession did not include Chairman
Hua Guofeng„ whose resignation is expected
soon, but diplomatic sources noted that he
appeared at her funeral Wednesday and
cautioned against attaching too much impor-
tance to his absence at Thursday* s ceremony .

Hua took no active part in the funeral at
which Deng gave tbe memorial address and
General Secretary Hu Yaobang, widely “
expected to be the next chairman, presided.

Meanwhile, Taipei's English-language
newspaper China News reported Thursday,
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memorial services for Soong altho ugh the
regime has made a big show to honor her
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